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Favorable late-Summer warmth across the Corn Belt

Across the Corn Belt, late-summer warmth is promoting corn and soybean maturation. By August 30, nearly one-tenth (9%) of the U.S. corn was fully mature, with Midwestern maturity ranging from 0% in Michigan and North Dakota to 21% in Illinois. Although most of the Corn Belt is experiencing dry weather, locally heavy rain occurred Tuesday morning in east-central Illinois.

On the Plains, very warm, mostly dry weather favors summer crop maturation and fieldwork, including final spring wheat harvest efforts. Isolated showers are mostly confined to parts of Kansas and Nebraska.

In the South, warm, mostly dry weather is fostering the maturation and harvest of crops such as corn, rice, and sorghum. However, showers are lurking near Florida and moving ashore along the Texas coast.

In the West, cooler air is arriving along the Pacific Coast. Beneficial showers accompany the cool conditions in the Pacific Northwest. Elsewhere, locally heavy showers associated with the Southwestern monsoon circulation dot the Four Corners States.

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