Weather
A wide-range of weather across the Heartland
Across the Corn Belt, rain showers stretch from near the Iowa-Minnesota-South Dakota triple point into the middle Mississippi Valley. Mild weather prevails in the eastern Corn Belt, in advance of the rain’s arrival, but wintry precipitation—including freezing rain—is developing across parts of the far upper Midwest.
On the Plains, winter storm warnings are in effect across parts of Nebraska and South Dakota due to snow and freezing rain. The wintry weather is disrupting travel and increasing livestock stress. Meanwhile, rain is falling in eastern sections of Kansas and Nebraska.
In the South, rain showers are spreading into the lower Mississippi Valley. Meanwhile, cool weather prevails in the Southeast, where frost was noted this morning as far south as northern Florida.
In the West, the latest round of beneficial precipitation is affecting northern and central California. Since late November, a series of Pacific storms in California and environs has boosted topsoil moisture and aided drought-stressed rangeland and pastures. However, warm weather has accompanied the storms, leading to little snow accumulation in the mountains. As a result, the water content of the high-elevation Sierra Nevada snowpack remains less than half of the mid-December normal, according to the California Department of Water Resources.
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