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An early winter look, feel across the Heartland

Across the Corn Belt, cool, breezy, mostly dry weather trails the passage of a cold front. Following an early-week storm, a variable snow cover blankets the upper Midwest; current snow depths include 4 inches in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and 2 inches in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.

On the Plains, a chilly rain is falling across western and central Texas, with some wet snow starting to mix in. Unfavorably dry conditions persist, however, across the remainder of the southern Plains. Meanwhile, cold, windy weather prevails across the northern Plains, accompanied by a few snow showers.

In the South, markedly cooler weather prevails in the wake of a cold front’s passage. Warmth lingers, however, across Florida’s peninsula. A chilly rain is falling across parts of the Deep South, slowing late-season fieldwork but boosting topsoil moisture following a very dry November.

In the West, wildfires continue to rage across parts of Ventura and Los Angeles Counties in southern California, driven by high winds and further aided by heavy fuel loads, extremely dry conditions, and low humidity levels. Across the remainder of the region, dry weather accompanies a warming trend. However, chilly conditions linger across the central and southern Rockies.

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