Weather

A wide-range of weather across the Heartland

Across the Corn Belt, a cold front is producing locally heavy rain from Missouri into the Great Lakes, increasing soil moisture for winter grains. Behind the front, precipitation is briefly changing to freezing rain and snow.

On the Plains, a fresh snowpack is insulating dormant winter wheat from bitter cold in Montana. Cold air has surged as far south as northern and central Texas, setting the stage for a swath of heavy sleet and freezing rain from north-central Texas northeastward into western Oklahoma and central Kansas. The sleet, freezing rain, and rain are detrimental to unharvested Texas cotton (60 percent harvested as of November 22).

In the South, sunny skies are accelerating fieldwork, particularly Southeastern winter wheat planting as well as cotton, peanut, and soybean harvesting, all previously delayed by heavy November rainfall and saturated soils.

In the West, dry, cold weather is settling over the region following this week’s beneficial snowfall. While it is still early in the season, mountain snow packs are off to a good start in areas plagued by extreme to exceptional drought, particularly from the Sierra Nevada northward into the Cascades.

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