Damaging offshore winds may down trees and power lines and fire weather threats across much of California. Critical fire weather threats are expected in the central and southern coastal ranges. Heavy snow is continuing in the Great Lakes, and will develop in the Central and Southern Rockies. High winds and heavy snow is occurring for parts of Alaska. Heavy rain in Hawaii will continue. Read More >
The National Weather Service office in Lincoln operates a network of over 100 cooperative weather observers. These observers, most of whom volunteer their services, take daily observations of temperature, precipitation, or river levels. These observations are used by the local NWS forecasters, the River Forecast Centers in Minneapolis and Wilmington OH, and the media. They are also archived at the National Center for Environmental Information in Asheville, North Carolina, and are important in studying the long-term climate of the area.
The Lincoln NWS personnel that assist with the cooperative observation program are:
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