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Wednesday, August 18, 2010: With rainfall keeping daytime temperatures just in the 60s in a lot of Iowa, and with the rest of the region seeing highs just in the 70s and 80s, yesterday was the coolest day for the Midwest in a number of weeks. Summer is not over with just yet though, as [...]

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Tuesday, August 17, 2010: With Nebraska being the only major producing state that truly saw improved conditions, it is easy to see why national corn ratings this week fell by two full percentage points in the good-to-excellent category. Indiana was dry and quite hot last week, so a drop of five percentage points in the [...]

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Monday, August 16, 2010: Highlighting weekend weather in the Midwest was some very welcome, very beneficial, and very needed rains in a good part of Illinois. Coming into the weekend that was a state that had seen limited rain as of late and had seen a lot of hot temperatures, but roughly the western three-fourths [...]

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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 [...]

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Thursday August 12, 2010 Temperatures for this summer of 2010 have averaged above normal across most of the Nation’s midsection, with readings just slightly above normal for the northwestern Corn Belt and the northern Plains but a solid distance above normal elsewhere (particularly in the Ohio Valley southward through the northern Delta where you can [...]

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Wednesday, August 11, 2010: Central Iowa has certainly been the “bulls-eye” for rainfall so far in this month of August, and amounts have now become heavy enough where flooding there is rivaling (or in some cases exceeding) what was seen in the historic flood years of 1993 and 2008. Rainfall amounts of 1.50 to 4.00-plus [...]

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010: Fairly stable national corn and soybean crop condition ratings this week, though in individual states we saw some fairly impressive amounts of deterioration and improvement. Kansas and Nebraska saw deterioration in their corn ratings due to a lot of heat last week in those states, with Illinois and Michigan also reporting [...]

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Monday, August 9, 2010: The “hot and steamies” that have long been expected for this week in the Midwest got started in a big way yesterday, with highs climbing to 90s degrees and higher for most of Illinois and points westward with dew point readings in the 70s to around 80. We saw actual highs [...]

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Friday August 6, 2010 Big rain has obviously been the big weather story in the Midwest so far this summer, but for next week the bigger story is going to be heat. Temperature conditions for today through Saturday in the Midwest will not be all that bad, with highs in most places in the 80s [...]

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August 5, 2010 Big rain has obviously been the big weather story in the Midwest so far this summer, but for next week the bigger story is going to be heat. Temperature conditions for today through Saturday in the Midwest will not be all that bad, with highs in most places in the 80s and [...]

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