Weather
Tranquil weather returns to the Great Plains
Across the Corn Belt, rain and snow showers linger across the Great Lakes region in the wake of a departing storm system. In areas where snow fell, gusty winds are causing some blowing and drifting. At daybreak, the snow depth in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, stood at 9 inches.
On the Plains, tranquil weather prevails. However, a variable snow cover exists across the northern half of the Plains, following recent storminess. Official January 21-22 snowfall totals in Nebraska included 14.6 inches in Norfolk and 11.4 inches in North Platte. Goodland, Kansas, received 8.3 inches. However, negligible moisture from the storm reached the southern High Plains, which remain parched.
In the South, showers and thunderstorms in the vicinity of a cold front are sweeping toward the southern Atlantic Coast. Dry, breezy weather covers the remainder of the region.
In the West, wet weather is returning to the northern Pacific Coast. Dry weather prevails elsewhere. The recent storm slightly improved snowpack across the Intermountain West, but spring and summer runoff prospects remain poor in nearly all areas except the Pacific Northwest and the northern Rockies.
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