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A colder, wetter pattern for the Corn Belt
The National Weather Service has issued Freeze Warnings for Saturday morning across the upper Midwest, stretching as far south as Nebraska and northwestern Iowa. In those areas, Saturday’s freeze will have the potential to harm immature summer crops, including corn and soybeans. Windy conditions will accompany the freeze, resulting in a fairly uniform temperature distribution and a lack of frost formation. By Sunday morning, freezes will accompany breezy conditions in the upper Great Lakes region, while the remainder of the Midwest will experience low temperatures mostly from 35 to 40°. In advance of the cold outbreak, late-week rainfall totals of 1 to 2 inches can be expected in the eastern U.S. Rainfall will linger through Saturday in New England, where amounts could reach 3 inches. In the storm’s wake, a long stretch of dry weather will prevail nearly nationwide, except for some early week showers across the South and East. Meanwhile, late-season warmth in the West will spread eastward, reaching the High Plains by early next week.
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for above-normal temperatures across much of the West, South, and East, while colder-than-normal conditions will dominate the northern Plains and the upper Midwest. Meanwhile, near- to above-normal precipitation from the Plains to the East Coast will contrast with drier-than-normal weather in much of the West.
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