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Warmth continues across much of the Heartland

Across the Corn Belt, warm, dry weather favors final harvest efforts and winter wheat development. By November 1, the U.S. corn harvest was 85% complete, compared to just 62% last year and the 5-year average of 79%.

On the Plains, isolated rain and snow showers accompany colder conditions in Montana. Farther south, warm, dry weather favors fieldwork in advance of an approaching cold front. Wednesday’s high temperatures will again reach the 80-degree mark as far north as the central Plains.

In the South, showers linger in the southern Atlantic States. Fieldwork in the Carolinas that had been nearly halted for several weeks due to an early-October deluge has been stalled again. Elsewhere, warm, dry weather favors autumn fieldwork, except in still-saturated sections of the western and central Gulf Coast States.

In the West, a storm system is producing widespread rain and snow showers in the southern Great Basin and the Four Corners States. As the storm drifts eastward, cool, dry air is overspreading the Far West. In California, the rice harvest was virtually complete—well ahead of schedule—prior to the recent rainfall, while the cotton harvest was 75% complete (compared to the 5-year average of 62%) by November 1.

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