Ag Weather Forum

Mild fall temperatures across the Midwest and Northern Plains are expected to take a cooler turn by next week, threatening winter wheat that is still emerging.

NOAA places the odds of 2024 ranking as the warmest year on record at greater than 99%.

The first big snowstorm for the Canadian Prairies is developing. Some snow has already fallen in Alberta and Saskatchewan, but much heavier snow and strong winds are expected for eastern Saskatchewan and Manitoba and may make for blizzard conditions.

While models have started to align on the overall development of next week's weather pattern, there are still some big uncertainties into how this will all come together, including timing, location, amounts, and even precipitation type with this long and drawn-out storm.

A key study has concluded higher temperatures lead to drought even when precipitation is at normal levels.

While models generally agree that a big storm system will move into the U.S. next week, they do not have much of an idea on what the details will mean.

Increased flows from the Ohio River into the Mississippi River during the next two weeks will depend on rainfall in the lower portion of the basin.

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.