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KEY MESSAGES

- Isolated to perhaps patchy fog will be possible from roughly 2 AM - 9 AM Tuesday morning, primarily for low-lying areas east of Highway 183.

- Dry weather and gradually-cooling temperatures are expected to last us into the weekend. Low-end chances for rain (currently 15%) return Saturday night into Sunday particularly for our southeastern counties.

- Wind gusts of 30 mph will be possible on Wednesday.

- Thursday night into Friday morning looks to be the coldest period upcoming with lows bottoming out in the upper 20s.

TUESDAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND

Dry weather is expected through at least Saturday night as our forecast area sits beneath broad northwesterly flow aloft through Friday. Tuesday into Tuesday night look to bring increasing cloudcover working from north to south. Some lingering cloudiness on Wednesday morning is then expected to give way to mostly clear skies through Saturday. On Saturday, the next trough is anticipated to begin impinging on our area, bringing in fresh moisture content and generally cloudy skies. Some light rain (mainly for our KS counties as progged by the deterministic 12z ECMWF and GFS alike) will at least be a possibility Saturday night and through Sunday as an embedded shortwave trough traverses the Central Plains.

Temperatures this week will gradually cool down with mid-week highs in the upper 50s to low 60s, and late-week highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s. Latest ensemble guidance suggests weekend temperatures will climb back to near 60. On the other hand, nightly lows are expected to generally span the mid 30s to mid 40s, with the exception of Friday and Saturday mornings. Friday looks the coldest, with lows in the upper 20s possible particularly north of I-80. Saturday morning is expected to stay a few degrees warmer in the low 30s.

Winds will likely steadily increase Tuesday night and through Wednesday as a shortwave trough and associated 850-mb jet quickly traverse through Central NE in this timeframe. Sustained winds of 10 - 20 mph with gusts of 20 - 30 mph are in play for Wednesday. A few gusts of 30+ mph will be possible particularly for our northern to northeastern counties.

AVIATION /06Z TAFS THROUGH 06Z WEDNESDAY/

Issued at 1125 PM CST Mon Nov 9 2026

For KGRI/KEAR Airports:

High confidence in a dry, VFR TAF. Light northerly winds will gradually shift and become more southerly late this morning (16-18Z), remaining around 5 kts. Near the end of the TAF period, winds will veer, and return to northerly. Skies will start out mostly clear, before a high cloud layer passes over this afternoon/evening.

GID WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

NE...None. KS...None.