Weather and Market Commentary- Monday, June 1
June 1, 2009 by sabrina829
Monday, June 1, 2009:
The first day of the “meteorological” summer (which runs through August 31) found the latest round of rain to impact the Midwest taking shape overnight. Showers and thunderstorms early on this Monday were found generally along Interstate 80 from central Nebraska through northwestern Indiana. Most of the activity was not especially heavy, though notable about overnight rains was a very narrow strip between Marshalltown and Waterloo in Iowa where radar is estimating that localized rains were more than four inches. The first part of this work-week period will be wet in a large part of the Corn Belt, with rain not completely exiting the region until late on Wednesday. The northwestern part of the region will not see much additional rain, but for much of Nebraska, Iowa, far southern Wisconsin, southern Michigan, and points southward there will be additional rains of more than a half inch with localized rains exceeding two inches. Eastern Nebraska and western Iowa is probably the area most likely to see those bigger totals, and that rain would certainly be welcome as a good part of that area had less than half of their normal rainfall in May.
We will see a couple dry days for Thursday and Friday, but rain again for the Corn Belt for next weekend and we could very well see significant rain chances continue right into a good part of next week as a “battle zone” of air masses (cold in Canada and the northern United States, warm in the southern United States) gets set up. In addition to being wet, this first half of June is certainly setting up to be a cold one for northern parts of the Nation, with the Dakotas, Minnesota, and the Great Lakes region likely seeing temperatures averaging several degrees below normal over the next two weeks. For planting progress numbers to be released this afternoon, I would look for national corn planting to be 91 percent done (versus 94 percent for the same date last year), and look for soybean planting to be 64 percent done (versus the same pace a year ago and the five-year average of 79 percent done).
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Weather and Market Commentary- Monday, June 1
June 1, 2009 by sabrina829
Monday, June 1, 2009:
The first day of the “meteorological” summer (which runs through August 31) found the latest round of rain to impact the Midwest taking shape overnight. Showers and thunderstorms early on this Monday were found generally along Interstate 80 from central Nebraska through northwestern Indiana. Most of the activity was not especially heavy, though notable about overnight rains was a very narrow strip between Marshalltown and Waterloo in Iowa where radar is estimating that localized rains were more than four inches. The first part of this work-week period will be wet in a large part of the Corn Belt, with rain not completely exiting the region until late on Wednesday. The northwestern part of the region will not see much additional rain, but for much of Nebraska, Iowa, far southern Wisconsin, southern Michigan, and points southward there will be additional rains of more than a half inch with localized rains exceeding two inches. Eastern Nebraska and western Iowa is probably the area most likely to see those bigger totals, and that rain would certainly be welcome as a good part of that area had less than half of their normal rainfall in May.
We will see a couple dry days for Thursday and Friday, but rain again for the Corn Belt for next weekend and we could very well see significant rain chances continue right into a good part of next week as a “battle zone” of air masses (cold in Canada and the northern United States, warm in the southern United States) gets set up. In addition to being wet, this first half of June is certainly setting up to be a cold one for northern parts of the Nation, with the Dakotas, Minnesota, and the Great Lakes region likely seeing temperatures averaging several degrees below normal over the next two weeks. For planting progress numbers to be released this afternoon, I would look for national corn planting to be 91 percent done (versus 94 percent for the same date last year), and look for soybean planting to be 64 percent done (versus the same pace a year ago and the five-year average of 79 percent done).
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