Weather
Rains return to the Midwestern Corn Belt
Across the Corn Belt, showers and thunderstorms are developing in the Great Lakes States. In contrast, warm, dry weather in the eastern Corn Belt favors pre-planting fieldwork. Planting activities are just getting underway across the region’s southern tier, where 1% of Missouri’s intended corn acreage had been planted by April 2.
On the Plains, a disturbance crossing the north-central U.S. is producing some late-season snow in South Dakota and environs. Meanwhile, cooler air is overspreading the central and southern Plains, following the passage of a weak cold front.
In the South, warm, dry weather is promoting a rapid pace of fieldwork and crop development. In the Southeast, however, effects of the mid-March cold wave are still apparent. In Georgia, for example, 71% of the blueberry crop was rated in very poor to poor condition on April 2. On the same date, 81% of South Carolina’s peaches were rated very poor to poor.
In the West, near- to below-normal temperatures prevail. Dry weather covers most areas, although rain and high-elevation snow showers dot the Northwest.
Forecast High Temperatures (National)
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