Seasonal warmth, scattered rains across the Heartland

Seasonal warmth, scattered rains across the Heartland

Across the Corn Belt, a warm, humid air mass dominates from the Great Plains eastward through the Ohio Valley, with Friday morning showers already developing in the vicinity of Kansas City, Missouri. While the warmth favors corn and soybean development, the potential for additional excessive moisture is unwelcome.

On the Plains, stormy weather traversing Nebraska

and South Dakota has renewed concerns for flooding of streams and low lying

fields. In contrast, heat and dryness favor drydown and harvesting of hard red

winter wheat in the southern Plains, where Friday  daytime highs are expected to reach the upper

90s.

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