Weather

Added Corn Belt fieldwork delays ahead

Cool weather will persist in California and the Northwest during the next 5 days. Northwestern showers, including late-season, high-elevation snow, will briefly subside during the weekend, only to return early next week. Meanwhile, a low-pressure system will traverse the U.S.-Canadian border, reaching the Great Lakes region during the weekend and northern New England early next week. Five-day precipitation totals could reach 1 to 3 inches in northern California and the Northwest, and 1 to 2 inches from the Great Lakes region to northern New England. Showers and thunderstorms along the low-pressure system’s trailing cold front could result in 1- to 3-inch rainfall totals from the southern Plains into the Midwest. In contrast, mostly dry weather will prevail into next week across the Southwest and the lower Southeast, including Florida.

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of warmer-than-normal weather across much of the southern two-thirds of the U.S., while below-normal temperatures will be confined to the nation’s northern tier. Meanwhile, wetter-than-normal conditions across roughly the northern half of the nation will contrast with near- to below-normal rainfall across the South.

5-Day Precipitation Totals

NOAA’s 6- to 10- Day Outlook

NOAA’s 8- to 14- Day Outlook