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Colder than normal through holiday weekend

An ag meteorologist says farmers shouldn’t expect soil temperatures to warm up anytime soon.

“Over the next one to two weeks, no sign of substantial heat or a great accumulation of growing degree day units.”

Brownfield Meteorologist Greg Soulje says temperatures throughout the Midwest are expected to be five to 10 degrees below average, and frost and freeze events are still possible in the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes regions.  “I think we have some at least patchy in low cold spots, usual subject areas—from the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, lower Michigan—the potential for a little light frost or freeze at some point as we wind on through the last week of May into the first couple of days of June.”

Soulje says he expects slower crop emergence till mid-June, and a warmer and drier weather pattern in mid-to-late summer across the Corn Belt.

AUDIO: Interview with Greg Soulje