Across the Corn Belt, any cold weather is limited to the upper Great Lakes region, where Friday’s high temperatures will remain mostly below 32°F. Mild, dry weather covers the remainder of the Midwest, following Thursday’s rain showers, which were heaviest across the Ohio Valley. In contrast, soils remain unfavorably dry in parts of the upper Midwest, especially in areas where a cold-season snowfall deficit follows last summer’s drought.
On the Plains, temperatures remain mostly above normal for this time of year, despite a recent cooling trend.