Weather and Market Commentary: August 13, 2010
August 13, 2010 by sabrina829
Friday, August 13, 2010:
One can’t help but notice the temperatures early on this Friday morning in parts of the western Corn Belt, as 5 AM readings were at 80 degrees or a little higher for places like Des Moines, Omaha, Kansas City and Topeka. All of these readings would be record-high minimums for the date, though it is quite likely that these will not hold as these places should drop below this morning’s readings by midnight tonight. Still, it is a continuation of extremely warm nighttime temperatures that we have seen throughout the Corn Belt for most of this summer of 2010. It is Minnesota and Wisconsin that are the focus of the rainfall so far on this Friday, with radar estimating a pretty large area of 2-4+ inch rains overnight in central parts of Minnesota. With a cold front approaching the western Corn Belt today, basically all areas west of the Mississippi River will be under the gun for thunderstorms, some of which will be severe and produce locally heavy rains, over the next 24 hours before the threat of rain moves into the eastern Corn Belt for tomorrow. Behind that system is cooler air for Sunday through about Thursday of next week that still looks to be some of the coolest seen in the region since very early this summer or even earlier than that. There continues to be strong signs though that conditions will return to warmer- than-normal for the last week to ten days of this month. Getting rain into the central and southern Plains, the southeastern Corn Belt, the Delta, and the Southeast is very important as those are the areas that have been so very hot in recent weeks and a lot of that area has not seen a lot of rain. I like the rainfall chances for the central and southern Plains coming up, with especially Kansas likely to see some very nice rains of 1-2 inches starting tomorrow and lasting into early next week. The Southeast is going to be very wet over the next ten days, with southern Louisiana, southern Mississippi, southern Alabama, much of Georgia, and southern South Carolina going from a point where they need rain right now to where some spots may have too much rain by later next week. The toughest call is for the Delta and southeastern Corn Belt, where you can find models that bring that area very little rain over the next ten days and other models that bring that area heavy amounts of rain. At the very least that area has better rainfall chances in the forecast today versus what they had yesterday.
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Weather and Market Commentary: August 13, 2010
August 13, 2010 by sabrina829
Friday, August 13, 2010:
One can’t help but notice the temperatures early on this Friday morning in parts of the western Corn Belt, as 5 AM readings were at 80 degrees or a little higher for places like Des Moines, Omaha, Kansas City and Topeka. All of these readings would be record-high minimums for the date, though it is quite likely that these will not hold as these places should drop below this morning’s readings by midnight tonight. Still, it is a continuation of extremely warm nighttime temperatures that we have seen throughout the Corn Belt for most of this summer of 2010. It is Minnesota and Wisconsin that are the focus of the rainfall so far on this Friday, with radar estimating a pretty large area of 2-4+ inch rains overnight in central parts of Minnesota. With a cold front approaching the western Corn Belt today, basically all areas west of the Mississippi River will be under the gun for thunderstorms, some of which will be severe and produce locally heavy rains, over the next 24 hours before the threat of rain moves into the eastern Corn Belt for tomorrow. Behind that system is cooler air for Sunday through about Thursday of next week that still looks to be some of the coolest seen in the region since very early this summer or even earlier than that. There continues to be strong signs though that conditions will return to warmer- than-normal for the last week to ten days of this month. Getting rain into the central and southern Plains, the southeastern Corn Belt, the Delta, and the Southeast is very important as those are the areas that have been so very hot in recent weeks and a lot of that area has not seen a lot of rain. I like the rainfall chances for the central and southern Plains coming up, with especially Kansas likely to see some very nice rains of 1-2 inches starting tomorrow and lasting into early next week. The Southeast is going to be very wet over the next ten days, with southern Louisiana, southern Mississippi, southern Alabama, much of Georgia, and southern South Carolina going from a point where they need rain right now to where some spots may have too much rain by later next week. The toughest call is for the Delta and southeastern Corn Belt, where you can find models that bring that area very little rain over the next ten days and other models that bring that area heavy amounts of rain. At the very least that area has better rainfall chances in the forecast today versus what they had yesterday.
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