Monday, July 6, 2009:
Rainfall and cool temperatures highlighted holiday weekend weather in the Corn Belt. Wisconsin, Michigan, and northern Ohio were the only areas of the Midwest that did not see at least some rainfall, and there were parts of Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana that saw some locally heavy amounts (Columbia, MO takes top honors for rainfall at major reporting stations in the region, gauging over four inches). Temperatures failed to get out of the 60s in Michigan back on Thursday (Grand Rapids had its second straight day of a record-low maximum that day), and parts of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana had highs only in the 60s on Saturday (record-low high temperatures recorded that day in Lincoln, IL and also at Indianapolis). We are starting this work-week with dry conditions all across the Midwest, but rain chances will get better and better as the work-week progresses for especially the northeastern part of the region.
Between now and early Saturday, look for some nice amounts of rain (0.50 to 1.50 inches) to fall over Minnesota, Wisconsin, western Michigan, northern Illinois, about the northeastern half of Iowa, and far eastern South Dakota. I like the odds for rainfall for the weekend and into the first half of next week as well, with that rain likely further south than what we see during this work-week. All in all, if you are in an area of the Corn Belt that would like to see some rainfall, you will have chances for that rain over the next 10 days so most crops should stay well-watered. Warmer temperatures are forecast for this week as well, though big heat will have trouble ever covering the entire Midwest. I think that we will see a lot of 80s for highs over the next two days, but by Wednesday we will start to see 90s in Missouri, Kansas and southern Nebraska. While I think that same area will stay quite hot going right into the coming weekend (or even longer; Kansas in particular may be very hot with highs in a few spots potentially topping 110 degrees at the end of this week), it looks like that heat will have a lot of difficulty in moving much further northeast. That may very well be the trend into next week as well, with Kansas and Missouri staying hot but areas further northeast seeing temperatures at normal or just slightly above normal levels.
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