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Chilly, wet weather expanding across the Midwest
Across the Corn Belt, Freeze Warnings were in effect early Wednesday in much of the Dakotas, Nebraska, western Minnesota, and northwestern Iowa. However, fieldwork has been substantially delayed in the upper Midwest due to cool, wet conditions, leaving only a few fields of corn, soybeans, and spring wheat that have emerged. Elsewhere, heavy showers are developing in the lower Ohio Valley and spreading into the eastern Corn Belt.
On the Plains, unusually cool conditions persist. Freeze Warnings were in effect early Wednesday for a broad area from the Dakotas southward across the central and southern High Plains. The cold weather continues to pose a threat to heading winter wheat, already harmed by drought, on the southern High Plains. Elsewhere, overnight showers are ending across the southeastern Plains.
In the South, widespread showers and thunderstorms are soaking the Mississippi Delta, the Mid-South, and portions of the Gulf Coast region. However, planting and other fieldwork activities continue under warm, mostly dry conditions in the southern Atlantic States.
In the West, dry weather prevails, although record-setting warmth in the Pacific Coast States contrasts with chilly conditions in the Four Corners States. The threat of wildfires remains high in southern California.
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