Across the Corn Belt, showers and a few thunderstorms are occurring early Thursday in the Ohio Valley and the lower Great Lakes region. In contrast, warm, dry weather covers much of the western Corn Belt, favoring a rapid pace of summer crop maturation and early-season corn and soybean harvesting. Thursday’s temperatures will approach 90°F in parts of Missouri.
On the Plains, unusually hot weather prevails across the southern two-thirds of the region. Later Thursday, high temperatures will top 90°F as far north as southern Nebraska.
