Weather
Showers scattered on the Plains
On the Plains, scattered showers and thunderstorms are slowing fieldwork but benefiting newly-planted winter wheat from the Dakotas southward to northern and western Texas. Meanwhile, warm, dry air is spreading across the northern High Plains.
Across the Corn Belt, warm weather favors corn and soybean maturation. However, locally heavy showers and thunderstorms have returned to the western Corn Belt, maintaining unfavorably wet conditions in some areas. According to USDA, Minnesota led the nation on September 11 with topsoil moisture rated 34% surplus.
In the South, Tropical Storm Julia remains offshore, east of South Carolina, with only minimal impacts along the southern Atlantic Coast. Across most of the region, warm, dry weather favors summer crop maturation and harvesting, although isolated showers stretch from the central Gulf Coast northward into the mid-South.
In the West, showers are confined to eastern New Mexico. Elsewhere, dry weather is promoting fieldwork. In addition, warm weather has returned to areas from the Pacific Northwest to the northern Rockies.
Forecast High Temperatures (National)
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