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Summer-like heat builds across the Heartland

Across the Corn Belt, showers and thunderstorms continue to pepper the upper Midwest, boosting topsoil moisture for emerging corn and soybeans. Meanwhile, warm, dry weather prevails across the eastern Corn Belt, where pockets of short-term dryness have begun to develop.

On the Plains, showers are primarily concentrated across Kansas and Oklahoma. Hot weather has developed throughout the nation’s mid-section, promoting a rapid crop development pace but increasing crop-water requirements. Friday’s high temperatures will approach or reach 100° as far north as western Kansas.

In the South, warm, humid, showery weather persists, maintaining abundant moisture reserves for summer crops in most areas. On May 20, topsoil moisture was rated at least one-third surplus in Virginia (46% surplus), North Carolina (39%), and South Carolina (36%). However, one area that is being affected by drought, and remains dry, includes portions of the Texas Gulf Coast region.

In the West, showers are mostly confined to northern California and southern Oregon. In addition, a surge of cool air is spreading across California and environs, leading to some late-season snowfall in the highest elevations of the Sierra Nevada. Farther inland, warmth covers the Rockies and Intermountain West.

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