Ag Weather Forum

A system produced some good rainfall for portions of the Corn Belt last week. Another system will do something similar this week.

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Hot and mostly dry conditions for the first half of June will reverse with a system moving through this coming weekend. The storm that brings the changes may lead to some widespread rainfall to the Corn Belt.

Flooding rains affected a portion of the Delta region this week, bringing a need to replant or file insurance claims.

Hot and dry conditions last week continue during the next week across the north. Scattered showers are providing moisture across eastern areas to battle the heat while only isolated showers are developing in the Western Corn Belt. A shift to more dryness is anticipated next...

Hot and dry weather will expand across the northern tier of the country this week, but an upper level low will move from Texas northward next week, opening up the Gulf of Mexico and increasing showers into the Corn Belt.

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Almost a full quarter of U.S. estimated corn acreage is in some phase of defined drought at the end of May.

Much of the Plains and western Midwest had moderate to heavy rain during the past week. Similar activity is indicated through this final full week of May.

Drought relief and useful crop moisture arrived in a timely fashion to the Plains, Midwest and Canadian Prairies during the past seven days.

Dryness and drought across the northern tier of the country will see periods of showers developing during the next week as a stagnant pattern will continue to pump moisture from the Gulf of Mexico northward through the country.

Neutral Pacific Ocean temperatures are now indicated in long-range forecasts through late northern hemisphere summer.

Neutral Pacific Ocean temperatures are now indicated in long range forecasts through late northern hemisphere summer.

Many crop areas had beneficial rain last week. Cold weather this week will slow growth with some risk of frost damage.

Corn, soybean and wheat areas have some timely moisture ahead of a mid-month warming trend.

The southern Midwest through the Southeast are in line for heavy rain through the next seven days. Northern Plains areas have only marginal moisture in store.

Australia wheat areas have useful precipitation in the three-month forecast.

A progressive upper air pattern promises to bring two rainmaking systems into much of the central U.S. during the next 10 days.

A concerning lack of soil moisture leads to caution when making crop size projections in 2021.

Several nights of below-freezing conditions east of the Rockies could damage winter wheat and emerged corn and soybeans in the Plains and Midwest.