Weather Report: Unusually Warm On The Plains & Corn Belt, Cool In The South
11/06/2009 09:08AM
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In the West, mild weather prevails, while showers are confined to the northern Rockies and the Pacific Northwest. Northwestern winter grains are benefiting from the mild, showery conditions.
On the Plains, dry, unusually warm weather continues to promote fieldwork and winter wheat growth. Summer crop harvesting is accelerating, but remains behind the normal pace in nearly all locations.
In the Corn Belt, late-season warmth is expanding across western areas, while chilly conditions linger in the Ohio Valley and the lower Great Lakes region. Dry weather throughout the Midwest favors a gradual increase in fieldwork, although many producers continue to struggle with wet soils and harvested crops that need to be mechanically dried due to high moisture content.
In the South, a window of opportunity for fieldwork remains open in most areas, despite a surge of cool air into the southern Atlantic States. However, harvest activities remain stalled in portions of the Delta States due to residual lowland flooding.
Outlook: During the weekend, tropical moisture—including the remnants of Hurricane Ida—will move northward across the Gulf of Mexico. Rainfall could reach portions the U.S. Gulf Coast by Sunday before overspreading the Southeast early next week. Farther north, showers will return to the Midwest early next week, trailed by a surge of cool air. Meanwhile, the West will also experience a cooling trend, along with rain and snow in the northern half of the region. Rain and snow will be heavy at times in the Pacific Northwest, where as much as 4 to 6 inches of additional precipitation may fall by the middle of next week. The NWS 6- to 10-day outlook for November 11-15 calls for above-normal temperatures from the Plains to the East Coast, while cooler-than-normal weather will be confined to the Far West. Meanwhile, above-normal precipitation in the Pacific Northwest, central and southern Plains, western Corn Belt, and Southeast will contrast with drier than-normal conditions in New England, northern and central California, and the northern High Plains.
