Excessive moisture across the Heartland

On the Plains, snow showers are affecting central and eastern portions of Nebraska and the Dakotas, while rain lingers across eastern Kansas. Meanwhile on the southern Plains, cool, dry weather favors spring planting preparations.

Across the Corn Belt, lowland flooding continues—mainly across western portions of the region—due to runoff from melting snow and recent widespread rainfall.

In the South, torrential rainfall continues across parts of Florida’s peninsula, where some locations have received more than 5 inches in the last 24 hours. A separate area of rain across the interior Southeast—including Tennessee—is halting spring fieldwork but easing concerns about short-term dryness.

In the West, rain and snow showers are confined to the northern Rockies and the Pacific Northwest. Despite cool weather, fieldwork continues in the Desert Southwest and has resumed in California.