 through the great lakes region northern plains will begin to settle on southward and finally making its way across the heartland that cold front and with it some pretty good coverage showers and thunderstorms for parts of the central plains much of the corn belt including the wetter areas but parts of the upper Mississippi valley are in need of some additional rainfall and welcome rains are expected across the dry reaches of the eastern and southern corn belt with perhaps an inch or two in some locales if not locally more