Guide Rock, Nebraska Weather
Guide Rock, Nebraska — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Guide Rock, Webster County.
Full aviation weather for Guide Rock is published on the Red Cloud Municipal Airport (K7V7) page, 18 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 5 airfields within reach of Guide Rock have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Guide Rock: Superior Municipal Airport (K12K) 23 km · Mankato Airport (KTKO) 31 km · Smith Center Municipal Airport (KK82) 53 km · Hastings Municipal Airport (KHSI) 60 km
Conditions reported at K7V7 describe the airfield itself. Weather 18 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Guide Rock specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Guide Rock.
About Guide Rock, Nebraska
Guide Rock lies at the edge of the prairie's vast, subtle swells, where the land breathes under an immense sky. It lies 35.5 miles south of Hastings, NE (from Hastings, NE: bearing 175°T), and is situated 14.3 miles west-north-west of Superior. The terrain here is a study in gentle transitions, a landscape shaped by wind and water into a soft, rolling topography that invites the eye to follow the horizon. Fields of grain, in their seasons, paint broad strokes of emerald and gold against the pale blue canvas, punctuated by the darker, more resolute lines of windbreaks and scattered farmsteads. The air itself carries a dry, clean scent, tinged with the dust of cultivation and the faint, sweet promise of summer rain. Even the shadows, cast long and deep by the low-angled sun, seem to possess a certain quiet substance on this open ground. The history of Guide Rock is deeply entwined with the agricultural heart of Nebraska, a place where families have worked the soil for generations, their lives measured by the planting and harvesting cycles. This region's economy has always drawn its strength from the fertile earth, with corn and soybeans forming the backbone of local commerce, their bounty trucked to distant markets. The very name, Guide Rock, hints at a past when such natural formations may have served as waypoints for travelers across these expansive plains, a silent sentinel in a landscape that once demanded such navigation. While the pace of life in Guide Rock is unhurried, there's a quiet resilience here, a testament to the enduring spirit of those who call this stretch of prairie home.
Live animated radar for Guide Rock and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Guide Rock, Webster County, Nebraska |
| Coordinates | 40.074736°N, 98.330607°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 68942 |
| Area Code | 308 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Guide Rock, Nebraska Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Guide Rock, Nebraska, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Guide Rock includes coordinates 40.074736°N, 98.330607°W, situated in Webster County. ZIP code 68942. Telephone area code: 308. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
