February 2019 Conditions: After some very cold temperatures and windchill across the region in early February, time will tell how conditions might have influenced winter wheat. One worry is that many of those acres were without much snow cover during the extreme conditions. However, adequate soil moisture (abundant or over-abundant in many places) should translate to minimized winter kill. NOAA meteorologists are predicting somewhat colder than normal temperatures for the month ahead, as well as probabilities for moisture, noted in the February 2019 issue.