Weather

Better harvest weather in the eastern Corn Belt

On the Plains, dry, unusually warm weather is maintaining stress on hard red winter wheat. Monday’s high temperatures will approach 70° as far north as western Nebraska.

Across the Corn Belt, light rain showers are crossing the Mississippi and lower Missouri Valleys. Meanwhile, mild, dry weather in the eastern Corn Belt is promoting late-season harvest efforts.

In the South, a low-pressure system lurking east of Georgia is producing some rain across North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Cool conditions linger in the southern Atlantic States, but mild, dry weather across the remainder of the region favors winter wheat planting, cotton and soybean harvesting, and other autumn fieldwork.

In the West, a slow-moving cold front is producing torrential precipitation in parts of the Northwest. Flooding is a threat in portions of Washington, Oregon, and northern Idaho, while a Blizzard Warning is in effect in western Montana along the Front Range of the northern Rockies. In stark contrast, mild, dry weather prevails from central and southern California to the central and southern Rockies.