Summer heat, scattered t-storms cover the Heartland

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Summer heat, scattered t-storms cover the Heartland

Across the Corn Belt, showers and thunderstorms dot the upper Midwest. Meanwhile, very warm, dry weather is causing some problems in the eastern Corn Belt with soil compaction, especially in areas where corn and soybeans germinated when soils were soggy.

On the Plains, showers and a few thunderstorms across northern portions of the region are maintaining generally favorable growing conditions for spring-sown crops such as barley and spring wheat. Meanwhile, locally heavy showers in Texas and environs are providing beneficial moisture for rangeland, pastures, and summer crops. However, hardest-hit drought areas encompassing parts of a five-state region (southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, western Oklahoma, northern Texas, and northeastern New Mexico) remain mostly dry.

In the South, warm, humid, showery weather is promoting a rapid pace of crop development and maintaining generally favorable growing conditions for spring-sown crops. Early Monday, some of the heaviest showers are occurring along and near the Gulf Coast. A small low-pressure system moved inland overnight across Florida’s peninsula.

In the West, dry weather accompanies mostly near- or above-normal temperatures. Arizona’s two largest wildfires of the season to date—the 193,000-acre Bush Fire and the 119,000-acre Bighorn Fire—are fully contained or nearly so, but several smaller blazes across the West are in various stages of containment.

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