Ag Weather Forum

A much colder pattern is in store for the central U.S. during the next 10 days or more.

The April 5 USDA weekly crop progress report showed a dramatic drop in soil moisture from the same point last year.

A sharply changing temperature pattern ends with prospects for warm conditions in the prime growing areas for early April.

Significant early spring precipitation is indicated during the mid-March time frame in much of the central United States.

Warm and dry conditions remain as highlight items in the central U.S. spring forecast.

Although drought continues to worsen in North Dakota and Montana, recent and forecast precipitation has affected and will eat into a lot of the drought in the Plains and Midwest.

Different starting features kept the mid-March 2021 central U.S. storm event from duplicating the 2019 bomb cyclone.

Significant early-spring precipitation is indicated over the mid-March time frame in much of the central U.S.

Research connects global warming gases to the historic floods of 2019.

The last three months has seen a strip of increased rainfall in a few states, but precipitation overall remains below normal in the northwestern portions of the Missouri River basin. The forecast shows lower potential flood risk on the main stem of the Missouri River going into...

Early spring does not have much drought relief across the U.S. Great Plains.

Drought, snow cover and growth stage will all influence the amount of winterkill in wheat fields from last week's arctic blast.

A pattern of more seasonal temperatures and weaker storm systems is replacing bitter arctic cold during late February.

The NOAA Climate Prediction Center seasonal drought outlook calls for drought to remain in western Iowa, and to either remain or develop over all but the southeastern portion of the Plains.

Record-breaking Arctic air that covered the central U.S. during mid-February is set to retreat into Canada during the next seven days.

February 2021 temperatures put comparisons to 2012 on ice.

Harsh mid-February snow offers at least some moisture for dry areas of the central U.S.

Snowpack water levels in the Upper Missouri River indicate much lower spring flood risk than 10 years ago in 2011.

A steady push of Arctic air through mid-February will put exposed Plains and Midwest winter wheat at a risk for winterkill.

We're about to see a dramatic change to the weather that we have been experiencing this winter.