The National Weather Service office out of Hastings announced late last week that February, 2024 was the third-warmest February on record in the Tri Cities region of Central and South Central Nebraska, making if the warmest month of February in 70 years, since 1954.
Only February, 1954, and February, 1930, were warmer then this past month, as in 1954, the average high temperature in Hastings was 57.4 degrees, while in 1930, the daily average temperature in Hastings was 54.1 degrees.
This past month, the daily average high temperature reached 53.1 degrees.
In 1954, the daily average low temperature fell to just 30.5 degrees, while in 1930, the daily average low dipped to 29 degrees.
This past February, the daily average low temperature fell to 26.8 degrees. Weather service officials shared that this past February had temperatures that were 9.9 degrees above normal, making the month the third warmest on record out of the past 112 years of recorded temperatures.
NWS officials noted that “going handin- hand with the very warm month, February featured merely 0.1” of snowfall. It was the 12th least snowy February on record out of the past 120 years, and the least-snowy since a trace of snow fell in 1991 in the Hastings region of the Hastings office’s coverage area.
