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Cooler weather, a few showers across the Corn Belt

On the Plains, breezy weather accompanies record-setting warmth. Thursday’s high temperatures will approach 90° on the southern High Plains, where lingering drought impacts continue to adversely affect rangeland, pastures, and winter wheat. On March 25, nearly one-third (30%) of the Texas winter wheat crop was rated in very poor to poor condition.

Across the Corn Belt, cool weather has returned to the Great Lakes region, where frost and freeze advisories were in effect Thursday morning. Freezes were mostly confined to Wisconsin and Michigan, where late-March freezes are common. However, the cool weather follows an extended period of record-setting warmth. Elsewhere, showers and thunderstorms are affecting portions of the middle Mississippi and lower Missouri Valleys.

In the South, scattered showers are confined to the western Gulf Coast region. Elsewhere, very warm, dry weather continues to promote a rapid pace of fieldwork and crop development, although drought remains a concern with respect to pastures, winter grains, and emerging summer crops across the lower Southeast.

In the West, cool weather is limited to the Pacific Northwest, the northern Rockies, and areas along the California coast. Precipitation is falling across the Pacific Northwest, but dry weather prevails elsewhere.

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