Weather
Hot weather persists on the Plains
Across the Corn Belt, mostly dry weather is promoting a rapid crop development pace, except in a few areas where soil moisture is lacking. Most of the Midwestern dry pockets are limited to portions of the western and central Corn Belt. In contrast, lowland flooding persists in parts of northeastern Illinois and southeastern Wisconsin.
On the Plains, hot, mostly dry weather prevails, except for slightly cooler conditions in Montana. Monday’s high temperatures could top 100° as far north as South Dakota. Pasture and crop conditions continue to deteriorate across the northern Plains due to extremely dry conditions, aggravated by periods of hot weather.
In the South, showery weather prevails along the Gulf Coast and in the southern Atlantic region. Meanwhile, warm, dry weather favors fieldwork and crop development across the mid-South and interior Southeast.
In the West, new wildfires remain a threat across portions of the Great Basin and the Intermountain region. During the first half of July, Western wildfires charred more than 1.5 million acres of vegetation. The largest active wildfire is the 218,000-acre Roosters Comb fire, north of Battle Mountain, Nevada. Meanwhile, monsoon-related showers are maintaining the risk of additional flash flooding in parts of Arizona.
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