Weather
A wide-range of weather across the Heartland
Across the Corn Belt, snow is returning to parts of Minnesota and eastern North Dakota. A little bit of snow is also falling in Ohio. Most of the remainder of the Midwest is getting a taste of spring, with temperatures expected to reach 70° later Friday in the middle Mississippi Valley.
On the Plains, cold, windy weather is returning to Montana and the Dakotas, accompanied by some light snow. Farther south, unfavorably dry conditions persist on the southern High Plains, despite an increase in cloudiness. In addition, warmth lingers for a final day from Texas to eastern Kansas.
In the South, warm, dry weather favors some spring fieldwork, at least where soils are warm and dry enough. Soil temperatures are high enough to support corn development only across the Deep South, where Georgia’s crop was 9% planted by March 16.
In the West, dry weather prevails. However, cool conditions in the Northwest contrast with warm weather from California to the southern Rockies. The Sierra Nevada snowpack, which currently contains just 7 inches of water (25% of the late-March normal), has begun to melt.
Forecast High Temperatures (National)
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