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Remnants of Hurricane Beryl bringing rain to parts of the Corn Belt

A National Weather Service meteorologist says the remnants of Hurricane Beryl are expected to have an impact on the eastern Corn Belt.

Ed Shimon tells Brownfield…

“It still has quite a bit of moisture with it.”  He says, “It’s not like as soon as it hits the land it drops all its rain and it’s done. It’s still a deep low-pressure system, so we’re expecting a swath of one to three inches of rain, generally along and north of the path of that remnant low pressure system.”

Shimon says it brings the potential for flooding to some already saturated areas, like southeastern Illinois.

“What you get with this type of a tropical system is a band of rain that could just kind of sit over one area for a long period of time.”  He says, “That’s going to be enough to overcome some roads, so people need to be mindful.”

However, he says some of the impacted areas, like east central Illinois and points east, need the moisture.

“That Champaign corridor. It doesn’t look like they’ll get the as intense rains that far north.”  He says, “The middle two thirds of Illinois is under at least abnormally dry.”

Shimon says forecasts predict Beryl’s remnants to move through the central part of the United States Tuesday & Wednesday before reaching the northeast and Canada on Thursday.