Weather and Market Commentary- July 2, 2009

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Weather and Market Commentary- July 2, 2009

July 2, 2009 by sabrina829

Thursday, July 2, 2009:

A second straight day of sub-70 degree highs was recorded yesterday in northeastern parts of the Corn Belt, with the coverage of those temperatures more expansive than what we saw on Tuesday. Record-low maximum temperatures were again recorded at several locations, such as Dubuque (66 degrees), Peoria (69 degrees), Madison (63 degrees), and Rockford (65 degrees, their second straight day of setting a record-low maximum temperature). Today will be warmer, and except for some spots in Michigan, it looks like our sub-70 degree readings are now a thing of the past. That said, below-normal temperatures will continue to be seen in most of the Midwest through about next Tuesday. Warming will be see after that, and I continue to pinpoint the July 9-10 time frame as one in which some real heat will return to the Midwest. The very worst of that heat will be in the Plains and far southwestern Corn Belt, and it looks like even that heat will again back westward for especially July 12 and beyond.

Radar this morning was showing an area of thunderstorms over Kansas, and the mechanism responsible for those rains will be the same one that brings rain to the western and southern Corn Belt early in the holiday weekend, and eventually to the Delta for early next week. Rain should remain out over the Plains through tonight, then make its way into southeastern South Dakota, northeastern Nebraska, southwestern Iowa, northern Missouri, and west-central Illinois for tomorrow and tomorrow night. The 4th of July then looks to be a wet day for southern Illinois and southern Indiana. Rains will then finally work into the Delta for Sunday and especially Monday to give much of Arkansas, Tennessee, and the northern third of Mississippi some very welcome rainfall. For the duration of the weather system in question, look for southeastern Missouri, southern Illinois, far southwestern Indiana, and western Kentucky to see the biggest rains with the best coverage; amounts in that area should commonly be over two inches.