Weather
A quiet pattern across the Heartland
Across the Corn Belt, snow has spread as far north as the lower Ohio Valley. Cool but mostly dry weather covers the remainder of the Midwest. Most of the Corn Belt has a patchy, shallow snow cover, but more substantial depths exist across the upper Midwest.
On the Plains, mild weather in Montana is eroding winter wheat’s protective snow cover. Elsewhere, a variable, mostly shallow snow cover exists as far south as the central Plains, where cool, breezy weather prevails.
In the South, an intensifying winter storm is centered over Alabama. Heavy showers and locally severe thunderstorms are crossing the southern Atlantic region, while precipitation has changed to snow across the mid-South. Meanwhile, wintry precipitation (heavy snow and freezing rain) is spreading across the southern Appalachians and southern Mid-Atlantic States, halting travel and threatening to cause power outages.
In the West, a storm system is moving ashore along the Pacific Coast. Currently, the heaviest precipitation is falling across northern California and the Pacific Northwest. The average water content of the high-elevation Sierra Nevada snowpack has climbed to 17 inches, nearly 115% of average for this time of year.
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