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emperatures were 15 to 25 degrees colder than normal over the northern Plains delaying fieldwork and planting, while it was normal to 20 degrees warmer than normal across the dry southwestern Plains. A frontal boundary was becoming stationary from the eastern Corn Belt states to southern OK, setting up a large temperature contrast from north to south.
Freezing precipitation continued over northern Colorado and western Nebraska north of this frontal boundary, while heavy rainshowers were overrunning this frontal boundary over parts of north central Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan, early today. Columbia, Missouri, reports 1.15" of rain; St. Louis, Missouri, .81"; Bloomington, Illinois, 1.97"; South Bend, Indiana, 1.20"; and Grand Rapids, Michigan, 0.98". Rains were delaying fieldwork but also moistening soils and encouraging early growth across the southern Corn Belt where Monday's crop progress report says that Illinois has planted 38% of its corn; Indiana, 21%; and Missouri, 37% by this time last year.
Cold are will moving through the midwest bringing heavy rain and storms with very cold nights. This not normal for the month April
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