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Cold snap builds on the Plains

Across the Corn Belt, soaking rain is falling across portions of the upper Midwest, including Wisconsin and northern Illinois, curtailing fieldwork. Some wet snow is falling across the upper Great Lakes region. Unusually cold, breezy weather covers the western Corn Belt, where widespread freezes occurred early Thursday northwest of a line from eastern Nebraska to central Minnesota.

On the Plains, cool, mostly dry weather is slowing the emergence of spring-sown crops. However, a few rain and snow showers are overspreading Montana’s high plains. Light freezes occurred this morning as far south as central Kansas, while temperatures as low as 20° were reported early Thursday in parts of the Dakotas. 

In the South, showers and a few thunderstorms stretch from Kentucky to western Florida. In the wake of recent downpours, some fieldwork delays persist from the mid-South into the southern Mid-Atlantic States.

In the West, warmth lingers across the Desert Southwest, but cool air covers the remainder of the region. Snow is blanketing portions of the northern and central Rockies and environs. In spite of lingering cool weather in California, favorably dry weather prevails.

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