An ag meteorologist says Michigan’s growing degree days still are running ahead of normal but recent cool weather has slowed down the warmup.

“We’re still ahead but not as much as we were two or three weeks ago.”

State climatologist for Michigan Jeff Andresen (an-dree-sen) says April was again drier than normal with moisture levels the most widespread in the lower half of the Lower Peninsula.

“We’ve got deficits here on the order of two to maybe as much as four inches of plant available water,” he says.

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