Weather
Recent warmth depletes snow cover in many areas
Across the Corn Belt, mild, dry weather prevails. Recent warmth has melted all of the Midwestern snow, except in a few northern locations.
On the Plains, winter wheat production areas remain devoid of snow cover, following a February warm spell. Temperatures have fallen slightly from last week’s record-setting levels, but remain above normal in all areas but the southern Plains.
In the South, locally heavy rain stretches from southern and eastern Texas into parts of Georgia. For many areas west of the Mississippi Delta, the rain is helping to break a dry spell that has lasted nearly 2 months.
In the West, patchy, light precipitation is mainly confined to the Pacific Northwest and northern Intermountain West. Despite slight improvement from last week’s storm, the average water content of the Sierra Nevada snow pack—21 inches—remains slightly below the late-February average.
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