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The Unpredicatble Weather In Nebraska

Snowing one day and sunshine the next. Each day is a guessing game here with the weather in NE.

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The Unpredicatble Weather In Nebraska

For only living in Nebraska for a little more than a year now, I have already experienced the amazing and unreliable personality that the weather serves out here in the midwest. One day it will be 31 degrees Ferheinheint with a windchill of -8, and the next day is 72 degrees Ferheinheint with not a cloud in the sky. Let's just say my laundry may consist of cleaning my snow jacket and jeans, as well as my short shorts and t-shirts all in the same week.

Being from California and living in the Bay Area, the lowest it gets in the winter is maybe 32 degrees Ferheinheint. There is definitely a little frost on the ground but not a flurry in sight! The week's weather will usually stay consistent for two and a half weeks; maybe a few rainy days here and there. It will stay a beautiful 80-100 degrees Fereinheint for the whole summer with an occasional summer rain here and there, but nothing compared to good old Nebraska.

As I sit here in the dry yellow grass at Hastings College, soaking up the sun and watching the squirrels come out of hiding and chase each other around, I realize that no it's not spring yet, in fact, it's February still! This time last year the city of Hastings was recovering from a great snow storm that kept us college students in our dorms for three days, and boy did germs start spreading because almost everyone got sick. This past week the weather has been remarkably beautiful! And when it has been 20 degrees Ferheinheint below since November, snowing plus an ice storm in January, beautiful to Nebraskans is a partly cloudy sky and in the 50s!

So how long is this actually going to stay? I mean it's Nebraska anything can happen and like I said, it's still February!! So I pull out my phone and look at the weather app and low and behold! It will be at the highs of 70's until Thursday the 23rd, and Friday the 24th, it's supposed to snow! How is this even possible? I knew it wouldn't last.

So as the sun shines down on my pale skin, as the leaves dance around my feet, and the wind softly blows my hair, all I can say is, thank you Nebraska. Thank you for at least giving me a week and a half of what spring will soon feel like. Weather, you are so unpredictable here, it's like playing a guessing game each day I wake up!

So though you might be going on a walk and climbing trees one day, then the next creating snow angels due to a foot of snow appearing overnight, the weather here in Nebraska is truly a surprise each day that makes this state even more unique and fun.

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