Weather Report: Warm & Dry Across Most Of The Country, Lowland Flooding In The South
11/02/2009 08:49AM
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In the West, warm, dry weather is promoting fieldwork—including cotton harvesting in California and Arizona—and winter grain emergence and growth.
On the Plains, light rain is mostly confined to Nebraska. Elsewhere, mild, dry weather favors summer crop harvesting and winter wheat planting, emergence, and development.
In the Corn Belt, light rain is falling in an area centered on Lake Michigan. Elsewhere in the Midwest, mild, dry weather is promoting a limited amount of soft red winter wheat planting and corn and soybean harvesting, as field conditions permit.
In the South, winter wheat planting and harvest activities are advancing in the southern Atlantic coastal plain, but fieldwork remains at a standstill in many other areas—including much of the lower Mississippi Valley—due to excessively wet soils and lowland flooding.
Outlook: Dry weather will prevail for the remainder of the week across the southern half of the U.S., although cool conditions will persist in the Southeast. Cool weather will also linger from the Great Lakes region into the Northeast, accompanied by occasional showers. In contrast, dry weather will accompany a warming trend on the Plains. Elsewhere, shower activity will increase across the Pacific Northwest. The NWS 6- to 10-day outlook for November 7-11 calls for above-normal temperatures across the majority of the U.S. Near-normal temperatures will be confined to the Atlantic and Pacific Coast States and the nation’s southern tier. Meanwhile, below-normal precipitation nearly nationwide will contrast with wetter-than-normal conditions in parts of California.
