Weather
Cool pattern continues across the Corn Belt
Across the Corn Belt, cool weather continues to benefit reproductive to filling corn and soybeans. However, patchy dryness has developed across the Midwest during July, following near-record to record-setting June wetness. Still, at least half of the pastures are rated in good to excellent condition in every Midwestern State, while only Nebraska—at 16%—has more than one-tenth of its pastures rated very poor to poor.
On the Plains, locally heavy showers and thunderstorms are soaking the southern half of the region. The rain is providing additional drought relief but—on the central High Plains—causing some flash flooding. Meanwhile, cool, dry weather prevails on the northern Plains, where patchy dryness has developed in recent weeks.
In the South, dry weather accompanies unusually cool conditions. Pockets of short-term dryness cover western Kentucky and stretch from parts of Alabama, Georgia, and northern Florida into the southern Mid-Atlantic States. On July 27, nearly half (45%) of South Carolina’s pastures were rated very poor to poor.
In the West, record-breaking heat stretches from northern California to the northern Rockies. In addition, more than a dozen large wildfires in the Pacific Coast States are in various stages of containment. Elsewhere, previously heavy showers are gradually subsiding across the Four Corners States and Intermountain West.
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