Orleans, Nebraska Weather
Orleans, Nebraska — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Orleans, Harlan County.
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Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Orleans.
About Orleans, Nebraska
Orleans lies where the prairie breathes, a quiet collection of structures under a sky that stretches to forever. It lies 44.0 miles south-south-west of Kearney, NE (from Kearney, NE: bearing 207°T), and is situated 5.4 miles west-north-west of Alma. The land here is a gentle swell of tawny grasses, broken by the occasional stoic cottonwood, its leaves a whispered conversation with the wind. Dust, fine as powdered gold, settles on everything, a constant reminder of the dry, open country that defines this place. The air, especially in the long afternoons, carries a faint scent of sun-baked earth and distant, ripening corn. The story of Orleans is written in the furrows of the surrounding fields, a testament to generations who coaxed sustenance from this fertile, yet demanding, ground. Its economy has always been tied to the land, to the golden harvests of wheat and corn that have sustained it through lean and bountiful years. Local businesses, small and resilient, form the heart of the community, their doors opening onto streets where the pace of life is measured by the slow arc of the sun. Orleans remembers the whispers of the railroad that once promised wider horizons, a phantom echo in the quiet hum of the present.
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| Location | Orleans, Harlan County, Nebraska |
| Coordinates | 40.129177°N, 99.45538°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 68966 |
| Area Code | 308 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Orleans, Nebraska Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Orleans, Nebraska, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. 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 Orleans includes coordinates 40.129177°N, 99.455380°W, situated in Harlan County. ZIP code 68966. 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. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. 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.
