BOTTOM LINE WEATHER POINTS
– California will receive valuable heavy rainfall that eases drought.
– Cold and snowy weather will again retard Midwest wheat growth.
– Harvesting delays will resume on wet farms in Kansas and Nebraska.
– California will receive valuable heavy rainfall that eases drought.
– Cold and snowy weather will again retard Midwest wheat growth.
– Harvesting delays will resume on wet farms in Kansas and Nebraska.
Once again, farmers will run into another round of rainfall in the Midwest. Dry conditions this week allowed growers to gather more of their crops, but harvesting did not finish up in the Plains.
Nebraska farmers still had one-third of their corn left to gather, as of November 15th and Kansas reported that 27% of grain sorghum, 13% of corn and 12% of soybeans were still in the field.
During the past 7 days, much of the Midwest, outside of Illinois and Indiana, has been dry. By Monday, some light rain or snow is possible in Illinois and Indiana as a cold front moves through.
This will lead to a reinforcing shot of cold weather in the Northeast.
Late next week, a more potent storm system may develop in the southern Rockies and move into northern Texas and Oklahoma.
If such a storm develops, a broad area of precipitation will spread from the Rockies into Missouri and Illinois. With cold air in place, the northern extent of the precipitation shield may feature moderate snowfall.
A deep trough of low pressure is expected to unleash several waves of showers into the Western United States next week.
Wheat in Washington and Oregon has benefited from increasing November showers, but California farms and ranches are still waiting for the rain.
The GFS model above predicts generous rainfall in central California, but not in southern California where wildfires raged out of control last week.
