Weather Report: Warm & Dry On The Plains, Cool In The Eastern Corn Belt
11/05/2009 09:31AM
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In the West, shower activity is increasing along the northern Pacific Coast in advance of a cold front. Elsewhere, mild, dry weather favors winter grain development and summer crop harvesting. In California, the rice harvest is nearing completion and the cotton harvest is proceeding ahead of schedule.
On the Plains, warm, dry weather is providing favorable conditions for summer crop harvesting and winter wheat planting, emergence, and growth. Nevertheless, harvest activities for crops such as corn, cotton, and sorghum are behind schedule due to earlier developmental and weather-related delays.
In the Corn Belt, cool conditions linger across eastern areas, but mild, dry weather favors an acceleration of corn and soybean harvesting west of the Mississippi River.
In the South, mild, dry weather continues to promote a return to fieldwork, except in some of the wettest areas of eastern Texas and the Delta States. In excessively wet areas, uncertainties persist with respect to the quality of unharvested summer crops and the amount of soft red winter wheat that will be planted.
Outlook: Warmth currently centered over the western half of the U.S. will shift eastward, reaching the Midwest, South, and East during the weekend and early next week. In contrast, cooler air will gradually overspread the West, accompanied by as much as 4 to 6 inches of precipitation in the Pacific Northwest. Meanwhile, mostly dry weather will prevail for the remainder of the week across the southern half of the U.S. By Sunday, however, rain will develop in the western and central Gulf Coast regions and spread northward into the lower Mississippi Valley. By early next week, a return to showery weather can also be expected in the Midwest. The NWS 6- to 10-day outlook for November 10-14 calls for above-normal temperatures from the Plains to the East Coast, while cooler-than-normal weather will be confined to California and the Great Basin. Meanwhile, above-normal precipitation in the Pacific Northwest, central and southern Plains, Midwest, and South will contrast with drier-than-normal conditions across the northern High Plains and the Northeast.
