Weather

Big rains on the southeastern Plains, warm across the Midwest

On the Plains, local flooding is affecting eastern portions of Texas and Oklahoma, where overnight Monday rainfall totaled 5 inches or more in a few locations. Meanwhile, colder air is overspreading the southern High Plains. Elsewhere, dry weather has returned to Montana, following Monday’s beneficial snowfall.

Across the Corn Belt, widespread, record-setting warmth continues for a seventh consecutive day. Tuesday’s high temperatures will exceed 80° in much of the Ohio Valley. Rain showers are spreading into parts of the southwestern Corn Belt, including western Missouri.

In the South, warm, dry weather continues to promote fieldwork and rapid crop development. Nearly all (97%) of Georgia’s blueberries have bloomed, compared to 24% at this time last year. Meanwhile, heavy showers and thunderstorms are inching across western areas, including western Arkansas and eastern Texas.

In the West, stormy weather is returning to areas from the Pacific Northwest to the northern Rockies, while cool, dry conditions prevail elsewhere. Frost advisories are in effect Tuesday morning in some valley locations across interior southern California.