| Thursday evening's weather...and a forecast that leaves most of our region with sub-freezing temperatures over the course of the next week...pretty much guarantees a white Christmas for many locations in central Nebraska and a few places across north-central Kansas. Thursday night's storm threw nearly everything at us but the kitchen sink...starting out during the late afternoon before wrapping up around 3 am Friday morning. Most locations received a smorgasbord of freezing fog...freezing drizzle...freezing rain...sleet...snow...and thunder and lightning through the evening hours Thursday into the pre-dawn hours Friday.
Heavy bands of snow and sleet extended across central Nebraska in two distinct areas...one from near Holdrege north into the Ravenna...Ashton....North Loup/Scotia areas...and on into the Greeley and Spalding communities. Ten inches of new snow fell at Greeley and a NERain observer reported 10 inches of new snow 4 miles east of Scotia...which appears to be the area hardest hit. The second area...although not as heavy...showed up a bit farther east...around Chapman and between York and Gresham...where around 4 inches of new snow and sleet fell. |
Storm Total Snowfall and 7am Snow Depths
| Location | Storm Total Snowfall | Total Snow Depth |
| Greeley | 10.0 | 12 |
| Scotia 4 East (NERain) | 10.0 | 10 |
| Ashton | 8.5 | 9 |
| North Loup | 8.0 | 9 |
| Scotia (NERain) | 7.0 | 9 |
| Loup City | 6.0 | 7 |
| Miller | 6.0 | 6 |
| Ord | 5.5 | 6 |
| Arcadia | 5.0 | 6 |
| Shelby 3 Northeast | 4.2 | 6 |
| Saint Paul 4 North | 4.0 | 4 |
| Kearney 4 Northeast | 4.0 | 4 |
| Holdrege | 4.0 | 4 |
| Wilsonville | 4.0 | 5 |
| Gresham (NERain) | 4.0 | 5 |
| York 3 North | 3.5 | 4 |
| Elwood 8 South | 3.0 | 3 |
| Oxford 7 Northwest | 2.7 | 3 |
| Osceola | 2.7 | 6 |
| Burr Oak | 2.6 | 5 |
| Edison | 2.5 | 3 |
| McCool Junction (NERain) | 2.5 | 5 |
| Clay Center 6 East Southeast | 2.4 | 6 |
| Cambridge | 2.4 | 2 |
| Orleans 2 West | 2.4 | 2 |
| Grand Island Airport | 2.1 | 3 |
| Minden | 2.0 | 4 |
| Hastings NWS | 2.0 | 4 |
| Clay Center | 2.0 | 5 |
| Fairmont | 2.0 | 4 |
| Shickley 4 South | 2.0 | 4 |
| Phillipsburg | 2.0 | 3 |
| Cozad | 1.7 | 2 |
| Wood River | 1.5 | 4 |
| Long Island | 1.0 | 2 |
| Smith Center | 1.0 | 2 |
| Guide Rock | 1.0 | 3 |
| Bruning | 1.0 | 3 |
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