Ag Weather Forum

As part of the continued active weather pattern across the Central U.S., an upper-level low-pressure center will get stuck in the Four Corners region. Its exact position will determine potential for heavy rain through the Plains and Midwest as well as the possibility of heavy...

Fall drought has helped force heifers into feedlots instead of the U.S. breeding herd.

A favorable weather pattern for creating storm systems will continue in the middle of the country for at least the next week with more potential toward the middle of November.

It has been a long time since a large system has moved through the U.S., but the setup for next week is a much more favorable one. Nothing is guaranteed though and models will be working through a slightly complicated pattern.

Lack of wide-scale ocean cooling supports ideas of a weak Pacific Ocean La Nina in 2024-25.

It has been a long time since a large system has moved through the U.S., but the setup for next week is a much more favorable one. Nothing is guaranteed though and models will be working through a slightly complicated pattern.

For many producers across the Corn Belt, harvest progress has been ahead of schedule; however, precipitation may tag the region through the end of the month and into early November.

While it has been good for harvest and fieldwork, the lack of rain has caused widespread drops in soil moisture and has increased drought significantly for much of the U.S.

Warmth and dryness have brought on a dramatic increase in drought since early summer.

South Australia and Victoria wheat crops could be more than 30% below average due to drought along with September frosts.

Though October has been quite warm compared to average temperatures for the first third of the month, a burst of much colder air will be moving through. It will be brief, but a sharp drop from the warmth enjoyed thus far.

Hurricane Milton is on track to reach the Florida coastline Wednesday evening, likely as a strong Category 3 storm. Weakening may help to diminish the intensity before landfall of the hurricane that reached Category 5 strength Monday morning, but is not guaranteed.

An expected warm and dry October suggests difficult conditions for early winter wheat growth in the Southern Plains.

Now that we are getting into October, the first frosts start popping up across the northern tier of the country and typically find much of the Corn Belt throughout the month.

Helene has quickly formed from a disturbance to a hurricane over the last 24 hours and is set to become a major hurricane before landfall in the Big Bend area of Florida on Thursday evening. Heavy rain will spread northward, then westward as the remnant low interacts with an...

Global atmospheric warming led to more available moisture for damaging and deadly mid-September rains across Central Europe.

A fast-developing tropical cyclone is currently in the northwestern Caribbean. Forecasts are for the storm to reach hurricane strength as it enters the Gulf of Mexico and could be a major hurricane before landfall around the Florida Panhandle on Thursday.

A stalled front and a system forming along it this weekend into next week could bring about a burst of heavy rain through the Corn Belt. Models are still determining the most likely locations for heavy rain, which could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on the...

August climate reports highlight record-breaking heat for both the past month and year to date.

Mid-September rain prospects offer variable and limited easing of dryness for northern and eastern U.S. crop areas.