Isolated heavy rainfall will continue through tonight across portions of central Texas, though some relief from the heavy rain is expected on Tuesday. Heat and humidity will remain in place across the Eastern U.S. and interior Northwest U.S. over the next few days with widespread moderate to major Heat Risk. Dangerous heat will build into the Desert Southwest Tuesday through Thursday. Read More >
2018 Precipitation Summary and Monthly Stats For 5 "Key" Sites
2018 as a whole was a wetter-than-normal year, as roughly 99 PERCENT of the 30-county NWS Hastings coverage area observed at least slightly ABOVE NORMAL precipitation. More specifically, most places finished somewhere between 2-6" above normal. That being said, these annual totals were somewhat skewed by an unusually wet December, which ranked among the Top-3 wettest on record in most places. In some ways, this resulted in the year as a whole looking a bit wetter than it otherwise might have seemed through the typical "rainy season" and agricultural growing season. |
![]() 2018 Precipitation Map and list of several official totals (click to enlarge) |
2018 Monthly Stats for Grand Island and Hastings airports (Hastings snow measured at NWS office) |
2018 Monthly Stats for Kearney airport (official NWS coop observer, not the unofficial automated sensor) |
2018 Monthly Stats for Ord airport (snowfall data provided by NWS coop observer in town) |
2018 Monthly Stats for Smith Center (NWS coop observer) |
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