| Unless Tuesday's precipitation comes in like gangbusters...March 2009 will turn out to be one of the driest March's of record for the Tri-cities of Grand Island...Kearney...and Hastings...as well as one of the driest starts to the year when evaluating January through March 2009 data. |
| Station | March 1st - 30th 2009 Precipitation (Rank) | All-Time Driest March | January - March 30th 2009 Precipitation (Rank) | All-Time Driest January - March |
| Grand Island (since 1895) | 0.13 (7th driest) | 0.00 in 1907 | 1.31 (17th driest) | 0.59 in 1972 |
| Hastings (since 1894) | 0.05 (4th driest) | 0.00 in 1918,1929,1936 | 1.05 (12th driest) | 0.65 in 1929 |
| Kearney (since 1894) | 0.01 (2nd driest) | 0.00 in 1895 | 0.38 (2nd driest) | 0.36 in 1904 |
