Weather and Market Commentary- August 3, 2009
August 3, 2009 by sabrina829
Monday, August 3, 2009:
Cool temperatures were the big weather story for the Midwest during July, but it looks like heat will be the big story as we move into the middle of August. My data suggests that July will go into the record books as the coldest ever recorded for Iowa, Illinois and Indiana, and will rank among the ten coolest ever for Wisconsin and Michigan. We continued to see that cool weather over the weekend, with a few spots not getting out of the 60s for highs on Saturday (69 degrees was all that Peoria could muster, their coolest high temperature ever recorded for August 1), and a few spots set record lows on Sunday morning. However, blazing heat will again reappear in the southern Plains (100s already today for Kansas and points southward), and eventually the Midwest will see a taste of that heat as well. Southwestern parts of the Midwest will reach the upper 80s to middle 90s today and tomorrow before cooling a bit for the rest of the work-week. It will be the weekend and beyond when the heat really takes hold of Midwest weather, with August 10-15 being an especially hot period for especially areas west of Interstate 35.
Warmer than normal temperatures would not be an especially bad thing for the crops, given how far behind schedule they are in maturing this year. However, that warm-up has to be accompanied by rainfall, as it has been tough getting a lot of rain in sizable parts of the Corn Belt as of late and thus soils have dried considerably. No more is that the case than the Interstate 35 corridor of Iowa, an area that has picked up less than 25 percent of normal rainfall over about the last three weeks. Some thunderstorms are occurring this morning as a weather system moves southeastward; some very nice rain amounts were recorded overnight in west-central through northwestern Iowa (radar suggesting locally very big rains to the east of Sioux City). With the Corn Belt during this work-week being on the northeastern edge of the very hot weather in the Southern Plains, there will likely be a daily threat of rainfall due to “rim of fire” activity, with thunderstorms firing during especially the late-night hours. Late in the work-week period will be when the best amounts and coverage of the rain will likely be presenting itself.
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Weather and Market Commentary- August 3, 2009
August 3, 2009 by sabrina829
Monday, August 3, 2009:
Cool temperatures were the big weather story for the Midwest during July, but it looks like heat will be the big story as we move into the middle of August. My data suggests that July will go into the record books as the coldest ever recorded for Iowa, Illinois and Indiana, and will rank among the ten coolest ever for Wisconsin and Michigan. We continued to see that cool weather over the weekend, with a few spots not getting out of the 60s for highs on Saturday (69 degrees was all that Peoria could muster, their coolest high temperature ever recorded for August 1), and a few spots set record lows on Sunday morning. However, blazing heat will again reappear in the southern Plains (100s already today for Kansas and points southward), and eventually the Midwest will see a taste of that heat as well. Southwestern parts of the Midwest will reach the upper 80s to middle 90s today and tomorrow before cooling a bit for the rest of the work-week. It will be the weekend and beyond when the heat really takes hold of Midwest weather, with August 10-15 being an especially hot period for especially areas west of Interstate 35.
Warmer than normal temperatures would not be an especially bad thing for the crops, given how far behind schedule they are in maturing this year. However, that warm-up has to be accompanied by rainfall, as it has been tough getting a lot of rain in sizable parts of the Corn Belt as of late and thus soils have dried considerably. No more is that the case than the Interstate 35 corridor of Iowa, an area that has picked up less than 25 percent of normal rainfall over about the last three weeks. Some thunderstorms are occurring this morning as a weather system moves southeastward; some very nice rain amounts were recorded overnight in west-central through northwestern Iowa (radar suggesting locally very big rains to the east of Sioux City). With the Corn Belt during this work-week being on the northeastern edge of the very hot weather in the Southern Plains, there will likely be a daily threat of rainfall due to “rim of fire” activity, with thunderstorms firing during especially the late-night hours. Late in the work-week period will be when the best amounts and coverage of the rain will likely be presenting itself.
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