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Late-summer heat on the Great Plains

Across the Corn Belt, scattered showers are most numerous in northern production areas, from North Dakota to Wisconsin. The rain is helping to ease the effects of short-term dryness that has developed in recent weeks. Nevertheless, overall conditions remain mostly favorable for Midwestern pastures and summer crops, in part due to this summer’s absence of stressful heat.

On the Plains, hot weather is maintaining stress on immature summer crops. Monday’s high temperatures will exceed 100° as far north as Kansas. Widely scattered showers and thunderstorms are helping to offset the effects of the heat in a few areas, mainly across the central and southern Plains.

In the South, a broken line of showers and thunderstorms stretches from central Texas to the southern Mid- Atlantic States. The rain is slowing fieldwork but benefiting pastures and immature summer crops. Across the Deep South, hot, dry weather is promoting fieldwork, including the early stages of the corn harvest.

In the West, mostly dry weather prevails during a lull in the monsoon. However, a few showers linger across the Desert Southwest. Meanwhile, the return of hot weather across much of the West is boosting irrigation demands but favors fieldwork and summer crop maturation.

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