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Warmth covers the Plains, western Corn Belt
Across the Corn Belt, warmth continues to spread across the upper Midwest, promoting an acceleration of corn and soybean planting and other spring fieldwork. Cool weather lingers, however, across the eastern Corn Belt, where Friday morning’s low temperatures dipped below 40° in some locations.
On the Plains, rain showers are developing in parts of Montana. Elsewhere, very warm, dry weather favors a rapid planting pace, winter wheat development, and the emergence of spring-sown crops.
In the South, cool, cloudy, showery weather in the southern Mid-Atlantic region is halting fieldwork but helping to eradicate lingering pockets of dryness. Across the remainder of the Southeast, cool, dry, breezy weather prevails. Meanwhile, mild, favorably dry weather is promoting a limited return to fieldwork in the wettest areas from the mid-South southward to the Gulf Coast.
In the West, widely scattered showers stretch from California to the northern Intermountain region. Much cooler weather is arriving across California and the Southwest, but warm, dry weather continues to favor fieldwork and rapid crop development in the Pacific Northwest.
Forecast High Temperatures (National)
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