Winside, Nebraska Weather
Winside, Nebraska — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Winside, Wayne County.
Full aviation weather for Winside is published on the Wayne Municipal Airport / Stan Morris Field (KLCG) 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. 4 airfields within reach of Winside 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 Winside: Karl Stefan Memorial Airport (KOFK) 30 km · Pender Municipal Airport (K0C4) 38 km · Hartington Municipal Airport / Bud Becker Field (K0B4) 48 km
Conditions reported at KLCG describe the airfield itself. Weather 18 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Winside specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Winside.
About Winside, Nebraska
Winside breathes the wide Nebraska sky, a place where the land rolls with a quiet dignity toward horizons that seem to stretch into forever. It lies 16.1 miles north-east of Norfolk, NE (from Norfolk, NE: bearing 50°T), and is situated 8.9 miles west-south-west of Wayne. The soil here, a rich, dark loam, speaks of generations of cultivation, the fields a patchwork quilt of greens and golds under the sun’s slow arc. Evenings often bring a peculiar stillness, the air cooling with a scent of dry grass and distant, unseen water, as if the very earth exhales its day’s work. The houses, mostly modest and sturdy, stand with an air of unpretentious endurance, their porches catching the last, golden light before dusk deepens into a velvet blue. The history of Winside is deeply entwined with the fertile crescent of Wayne County, a landscape shaped by pioneers who saw potential in the sweeping prairie and the promise held within the rich soil. Its economy, like so many places in this heartland, has long been anchored in agriculture, with grain elevators standing as silent sentinels to the harvest. There’s a quiet pride in this connection to the land, a tangible link to the past that informs the present. While Winside may not boast towering landmarks or bustling avenues, its distinctiveness lies in its unhurried pace and the subtle beauty of its open spaces, a place where the rhythm of life is measured by the turning of the seasons and the steady growth of its fields.
Live animated radar for Winside 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 | Winside, Wayne County, Nebraska |
| Coordinates | 42.176392°N, 97.175048°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 68790 |
| Area Code | 402 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Winside, Nebraska Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Winside, 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 Winside includes coordinates 42.176392°N, 97.175048°W, situated in Wayne County. ZIP code 68790. Telephone area code: 402. 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.
