Average Rainfall for Nebraska in August

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall during August at cities, communities and other locations in Nebraska.

Each place has a total for the amount of precipitation it usually receives this month. There is also a count of the number of days with wet weather, when precipitation amounts to 0.01 inches (0.25 millimetres) or more.

The rainfall totals are averages based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 for the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: Eastern, South - Central, North - Central and Western Nebraska.

Eastern Nebraska

Average monthly precipitation in August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
9 Columbus 3.3 83
9 Falls City 3.8 95
9 Fremont 3.7 93
9 Lincoln 3.3 84
9 Norfolk 3.5 89
9 Omaha 4.6 117

South - Central Nebraska

August averages for total rainfall
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
9 Grand Island 3.2 81
9 Harlan County Lake 3.2 81
10 Hastings 3.4 86
8 Kearney 3.0 76
8 Lake McConaughy, Kingsley Dam 2.0 51
7 McCook 3.4 86
9 North Platte 2.6 65
7 Ogallala 2.1 53
8 Swanson Reservoir, Trenton Dam 2.9 74

North - Central Nebraska

Average amount of rain in August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
9 O'Neill 3.1 78
8 Valentine 2.0 52
8 Valentine National Wildlife Refuge 2.6 67

Western Nebraska

Precipitation totals for August
Days Place Inches Milli­metres
7 Chadron 1.7 43
8 Crescent Lake Wildlife Refuge 2.6 65
8 Kimball 1.8 45
7 Scottsbluff 1.2 31
Reference

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Climate Normals.

Nebraska Precipitation
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