Weather
Heat continues in the southern Plains
Across the Corn Belt, growing conditions remain mostly favorable for reproductive to filling corn and soybeans, as near- to below-normal temperatures accompany widely scattered showers. Lingering pockets of dryness are most widespread in the lower Great Lakes region, mainly covering portions of Ohio and Michigan.
On the Plains, generally cool weather and scattered showers are helping to ease the stressful effects of last week’s heat on pastures, livestock, and summer crops. However, hot weather lingers on the southern High Plains, where a 4-week heat wave has adversely affected rain-fed summer crops, including cotton
In the South, warm, humid weather prevails. Recent rainfall dented summer rainfall deficits in the Mississippi Delta and environs, helping to ease stress on pastures and immature summer crops. However, short-term drought persists in several areas, most extensively in a broad area centered on the southern Appalachians.
In the West, hot, dry weather prevails, except along the immediate Pacific Coast. More than two dozen wildfires are active across the West, and lightning strikes could ignite new fires in the Sierra Nevada and the Great Basin.
Forecast High Temperatures (National)
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