Weather
A much cooler pattern ahead for the Heartland
A push of cool air across the Plains and Midwest will maintain generally favorable conditions for summer crops, especially those moving through the temperature- and moisture-sensitive reproductive stage of development. By week’s end, however, heat will return to areas from the southern Plains into the Southeast. Meanwhile, persistently hot, mostly dry weather will continue to dominate the Northwest. In the Southwest, monsoon showers will help to suppress temperatures and provided some drought relief. Five-day rainfall totals could reach 1 to 2 inches, with locally higher amounts, in parts of the Southeast and from the Four Corners States northeastward across portions of the northern and central Plains and the Midwest. In contrast, little or no rain will fall across the south-central U.S., including Texas.
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for below-normal temperatures across the northern and central Plains and Midwest, while hotter-than-normal weather will cover the West and Deep South. Meanwhile, near- to above-normal rainfall across the majority of the U.S. will contrast with drier-than-normal conditions in the western Gulf Coast region and from the Pacific Northwest into the upper Midwest.
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