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Rain, severe weather sweeping the Midwestern Corn Belt

Across the Corn Belt, locally heavy showers and thunderstorms in advance of a warm front are easing topsoil moisture shortages from the eastern Dakotas into Illinois. Rain will reach the Ohio Valley later Wednesday and Wednesday night, providing much-needed relief from short-term dryness for vegetative corn and soybeans.

On the Plains, hot, dry weather is increasing evaporative losses and boosting moisture demands for summer crops in central and southern portions of the region. Cooler air has settled over the northern Plains behind a cold front, which triggered some beneficial showers overnight into Wednesday morning.

In the South, warm, mostly dry weather prevails, accelerating fieldwork and crop development. Rain is needed across much of the interior Southeast to ease stress on pastures and summer crops.

In the West, mostly hot, dry weather prevails, promoting fieldwork but maintaining high irrigation requirements. Several wildfires remain uncontained in southern California and the lower Four Corners. Cooler conditions prevail in the Northwest, though recent dryness is raising concerns over developing short-term drought.

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