Across the Corn Belt, mild, dry weather has returned to the upper Midwest. However, locally heavy showers and thunderstorms are occurring across the southern and eastern Corn Belt, generally benefiting summer crops and providing drought relief in Michigan and the southwestern Corn Belt.
On the Plains, another late-summer heat wave is underway across Montana and the Dakotas, favoring small grain harvesting but depleting topsoil moisture. Meanwhile, thunderstorms in the vicinity of a cold front are affecting portions of the southeastern Plains.
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