The featured map presents season to date snowfall departures for NWS Daily CLImate reporting sites. An interactive map version of this data is available as well. The map shows the regional contrast in accumulated snow with above average values confined to the southern portion of the Midwest and a few spots that receive lake effect near the Great Lakes. With an upcoming and brief stretch of above freezing temperatures, a good chunk of what snow cover that exists over Iowa will melt. This will be followed by a period of deep freeze weather with highs struggling in the single digits. Such cold weather without any insulating snow cover can have impacts for frost depth penetration within the soil and over-wintering hardiness of some plants.

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