Westerville, Nebraska Weather
Westerville, Nebraska — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Westerville, Custer County.
Full aviation weather for Westerville is published on the Broken Bow Municipal Airport (KBBW) page, 22 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. 4 airfields within reach of Westerville 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 Westerville: Loup City Municipal Airport (K0F4) 35 km · Evelyn Sharp Field (KODX) 44 km · Cram Field (KBUB) 46 km
Conditions reported at KBBW describe the airfield itself. Weather 22 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Westerville specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Westerville.
About Westerville, Nebraska
Westerville lies beneath a sky that stretches wide and impossibly blue, a vast canvas over the gently rolling plains of Custer County. It lies 50.6 miles north-north-west of Kearney, NE (from Kearney, NE: bearing 342°T), and is situated 7.5 miles north of Ansley. The land here is a tapestry of amber and gold in the late summer sun, fields of corn and wheat rippling like a sea under the persistent prairie breeze. Scattered farmsteads, their silos like stoic sentinels, punctuate the horizon, each a small island of human endeavor in the immensity of the landscape. The air itself carries a dry, clean scent, a mingling of sun-baked earth and the distant perfume of ripening crops, a scent that seems to whisper of open spaces and a life lived close to the land. The history of Westerville is as deeply rooted as the grasses that once dominated this terrain, a testament to the resilience of those who settled these wide-open spaces. The local economy, like many in this region, finds its strength in the fertile soil, the grain elevators standing as proud monuments to the agricultural bounty of the land. While not a place of grand pronouncements or bustling crowds, Westerville holds a quiet dignity, its days marked by the steady rhythm of the seasons and the enduring spirit of its people. The subtle glow of a porch light against the deepening twilight speaks of a community where neighbors still know each other's names and the simple acts of life unfold with a quiet grace.
Live animated radar for Westerville 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 | Westerville, Custer County, Nebraska |
| Coordinates | 41.396119°N, 99.380936°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 68881 |
| Area Code | 308 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Westerville, Nebraska Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Westerville, 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 Westerville includes coordinates 41.396119°N, 99.380936°W, situated in Custer County. ZIP code 68881. 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.
