Weather
A wide-range of weather across the Heartland
On the Plains, dry weather favors fieldwork, including summer crop harvesting and winter wheat planting. Warm weather has returned to the High Plains, promoting winter wheat germination.
Across the Corn Belt, cool but favorably dry weather prevails across the upper Midwest, where Wednesday morning’s low temperatures dipped below 40° in a few spots. Upper Midwestern lowland flooding is subsiding, except along larger tributaries of the Mississippi River. Meanwhile, cool, showery weather has developed over the lower Great Lakes region in conjunction with a slow-moving low-pressure system.
In the South, showers stretch from the southern Mid-Atlantic region to the Gulf Coast. Some of the rain in Virginia and environs has become locally heavy. Elsewhere, warm, dry weather continues to favor harvest activities but stress pastures. On Sep. 25, nearly half (42%) of Georgia’s pastures were rated very poor to poor.
In the West, very warm, dry weather prevails, except for some cloudiness and showers in Arizona and environs. In California, rice was 18% harvested by September 25, compared to the 5-year average of 15%.
Forecast High Temperatures (National)
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