Across the Corn Belt, cool, showery, breezy conditions prevail across the upper Midwest, while warmth lingers in the Ohio Valley.  Monday’s Midwestern high temperatures will range from near 45°F in northern Minnesota to 80°F or higher in parts of Ohio.  In advance of a cold front, showers are spreading into the eastern Corn Belt.  Elsewhere, recovery efforts continue in areas of the western Corn Belt—mainly in Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska—battered by tornadoes on April 2627, with locally catastrophic damage reported in communities such as Elkhorn, Nebraska, and Minden, Iowa.

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