Weather

Colder, more seasonal weather across the eastern Corn Belt

On the Plains, warm, windy conditions are enhancing the threat of wildfires, especially across western portions of the region. Monday’s high temperatures could exceed 90° as far north as southern South Dakota.

Across the Corn Belt, markedly colder air covers the Great Lakes States, but warmth lingers across southern and western sections of the region. Monday morning’s temperatures dipped below 32° across much of Michigan and the northern halves of Wisconsin and Minnesota.

In the South, warm weather—in the wake of last week’s rainfall—is promoting a rapid pace of fieldwork and crop development. However, most of Florida’s peninsula remains extremely dry.

In the West, chilly conditions prevail west of the Rockies, while beneficial rain and snow showers dot the Intermountain region. Recent storminess has boosted the average water equivalent of the high-elevation Sierra Nevada snow pack to 13 inches, approximately 46% of the late-March normal.