Weather

Wide-range of weather across the Nation

Across the Corn Belt, cold, dry weather prevails, with sub-zero temperatures noted early Tuesday in the upper Midwest. Snow covers the region, except the Ohio Valley, following a weekend storm. In fact, multiple recent storms have left snow depths greater than one-half foot in much of the northern and western Corn Belt. Early Tuesday, snow depths stand at 11 inches in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, and 9 inches in Des Moines, Iowa.

On the Plains, Tuesday morning’s low temperatures plunged below 0° in Montana and the Dakotas. Below-normal temperatures prevail across the remainder of the nation’s mid-section, while cloudiness and patches of light snow are overspreading the central and southern Plains.

In the South, lingering warmth is limited to southern Florida. Cool, increasingly cloudy weather covers the remainder of the region in advance of an approaching storm system, and scattered showers and thunderstorms are developing from eastern Texas to the southern Appalachians.

In the West, Freeze Warnings were in effect early Tuesday in California’s San Joaquin Valley, as well as parts of the Desert Southwest. Elsewhere, cold, mostly dry weather prevails in the Northwest, while snow is blanketing portions of the southern Rockies and environs.