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Wide-range of weather across the Heartland

Across the Corn Belt, patchy, short-term dryness persists in several areas, including much of Michigan and a broad area centered on northern Missouri, resulting in an increase in stress on pastures and crops such as corn and soybeans. Currently, widely scattered showers are affecting the eastern half of the Corn Belt.

On the Plains, scattered showers are most numerous across Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Drought continues to adversely affect some rangeland, pastures, and summer crops from the southern High Plains into eastern Kansas.

In the South, a warm, humid weather pattern continues to feature scattered showers and thunderstorms—except in the western Gulf Coast region. Although most crops remain well-watered, patchy dryness has developed in portions of the mid-South and southern Mid-Atlantic States.

In the West, an active monsoon circulation is helping to pepper the Four Corners States and portions of the Intermountain region with scattered showers. In recent days, monsoon-related showers have locally reduced irrigation demands, curbed the threat of wildfires, and aided drought-stressed rangeland and pastures. However, hot, mostly dry weather persists across northern California and the Northwest.

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