Weather and Market Commentary: June 28, 2010
June 28, 2010 by fastlineblog
Monday June 28, 2010
Big rains that have plagued much of the Midwest throughout this month of June continued to fall over the weekend. This time the hardest-hit areas were the northwestern two-thirds of Iowa as well as much of southern Minnesota. The bulk of that area saw a bare minimum of 1.50 inches of rain from late Friday through early Sunday but it was locally much heavier with a lot of 3-6+ inch rain totals from central through northwestern Iowa as well as parts of southwestern Minnesota. Cherokee, IA picked up over six inches of rain just during Saturday night, and Dakota City, IA picked up over six inches for the weekend. Needless to say, there are a lot of flooding problems this morning in Iowa and nearby areas, with the Des Moines River basin being the biggest concern (currently the forecast calls for water to go over the emergency spillway on Saylorville Reservoir north of Des Moines later this week, only the fourth time in history that has occurred but the second time in the last three years). The good news is that we will not see flooding problems in the Midwest exacerbated by additional rains. There were still some rains early on this Monday in parts of Indiana and Ohio. but once those rains leave the entire Corn Belt is looking at completely dry weather for the rest of this work-week period and even into the early weekend (with temperatures pretty mild as well). All of the significant rain through Friday will be along the Gulf Coast and over Texas; the heart of the Delta will have rain chances near term but likely will not see the soaking rain that they badly need. Weather for the July 4th holiday weekend and beyond will be determined mainly by the track of what is currently Tropical Storm (but will quickly become Hurricane) Alex. One can find models that take the remnants of that storm north and really hit the Delta and southeastern Corn Belt hard with rain next weekend. We do not agree with that solution though, feeling that the storm will track more westerly and never bring the Delta any significant rainfall.
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Weather and Market Commentary: June 28, 2010
June 28, 2010 by fastlineblog
Monday June 28, 2010
Big rains that have plagued much of the Midwest throughout this month of June continued to fall over the weekend. This time the hardest-hit areas were the northwestern two-thirds of Iowa as well as much of southern Minnesota. The bulk of that area saw a bare minimum of 1.50 inches of rain from late Friday through early Sunday but it was locally much heavier with a lot of 3-6+ inch rain totals from central through northwestern Iowa as well as parts of southwestern Minnesota. Cherokee, IA picked up over six inches of rain just during Saturday night, and Dakota City, IA picked up over six inches for the weekend. Needless to say, there are a lot of flooding problems this morning in Iowa and nearby areas, with the Des Moines River basin being the biggest concern (currently the forecast calls for water to go over the emergency spillway on Saylorville Reservoir north of Des Moines later this week, only the fourth time in history that has occurred but the second time in the last three years). The good news is that we will not see flooding problems in the Midwest exacerbated by additional rains. There were still some rains early on this Monday in parts of Indiana and Ohio. but once those rains leave the entire Corn Belt is looking at completely dry weather for the rest of this work-week period and even into the early weekend (with temperatures pretty mild as well). All of the significant rain through Friday will be along the Gulf Coast and over Texas; the heart of the Delta will have rain chances near term but likely will not see the soaking rain that they badly need. Weather for the July 4th holiday weekend and beyond will be determined mainly by the track of what is currently Tropical Storm (but will quickly become Hurricane) Alex. One can find models that take the remnants of that storm north and really hit the Delta and southeastern Corn Belt hard with rain next weekend. We do not agree with that solution though, feeling that the storm will track more westerly and never bring the Delta any significant rainfall.
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