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Comparisons to flood year of ’93 should end soon

An ag meteorologist says any similarities to the flood year of 1993 should be ending soon.

Don Keene with MDA Weather Services tells Brownfield wet weather this spring actually occurred sooner than the first six months of ’93.

“A lot of the wetness and flooding that year was later on in the season, in June and July.  So a lot of the impacts (this spring) have been in the past, and I don’t expect that wetness or flooding to last much longer in the Midwest.”

He says weather patterns will be changing this month.

“A lot of the wetness has been across the southern tier of the Plains and southern Midwest (and) Delta.  But it does appear that trend will begin to change as we go into mid-June and beyond.  It looks a little bit drier in the southern Plains, as well as the southern Midwest and Delta.”

Keene expects rainfall to shift towards the northern plains and Canadian Prairie the latter part of June.

Longer-term, he anticipates dryer weather in the southern plains and into Missouri, while the bulk of the Corn Belt experiences average precipitation.