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Wide-range of weather across the Nation

   Across the Corn Belt, mild air is arriving, starting across the upper Midwest. The warmer-than-normal weather has begun to erode a widespread, generally shallow snow cover. Early Friday, snow depths stood at 3 inches in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; Rockford, Illinois; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Dayton, Ohio.

On the Plains, rain and snow showers have begun to develop across parts of Montana. Mild, dry weather covers the remainder of the nation’s mid-section. Friday’s high temperatures will top 70° across portions of the central and southern High Plains, maintaining significant stress on poorly established winter wheat, which has also been subjected to intensifying drought and periods of extreme cold.

In the South, Freeze Warnings were in effect again early Friday, mainly across northern Florida and southern sections of Alabama and Georgia. However, temperatures in Florida’s citrus belt are not as low as those observed on Thursday morning, when protective measures were required for citrus, strawberries, and other freeze-sensitive crops. Elsewhere, rain showers are developing in the western Gulf Coast region.

In the West, scattered rain and snow showers dot the northwestern half of the region. In California, where cooler air is arriving, precipitation is falling as far south as the Sierra Nevada and the San Joaquin Valley. However, dry weather prevails in the Southwest, where high-elevation snowpack is abysmal.

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