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Pleasant weather across the Corn Belt
Across the Corn Belt, dry weather and moderate temperatures favor a rapid pace of corn and soybean development. Topsoil moisture is less than 20% surplus in all Midwestern States except Missouri (32% surplus on August 9).
On the Plains, monsoon-related showers are spilling across northern Texas, western Oklahoma, and environs. Hot, dry weather prevails on both sides of the moisture plume. On the northern Plains, the hot, dry weather favors small grain harvesting. In Montana, the winter wheat harvest was 84% complete by August 9, compared to the 5-year average of 45%. On the same date in Texas, topsoil moisture was rated 59% very short to short.
In the South, isolated showers and thunderstorms are occurring in the vicinity of a cold front. Cooler air is overspreading the interior Southeast, but torrid conditions are maintaining crop stress in the western and central Gulf Coast States. On August 9, topsoil moisture was rated 83% very short to short in Louisiana.
In the West, a monsoon surge is resulting in scattered showers in the Four Corners States. Elsewhere, generally cool, dry weather prevails in California, while hot, mostly dry weather covers the Northwest. By August 9 in Washington, small grain harvesting was nearly complete—91% for winter wheat and 79% for spring wheat, compared to the respective 5-year averages of 51 and 18%.
Forecast High Temperatures (National)
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