Weather

Cool weather covers the Midwest

On the Plains, hot weather is promoting winter wheat maturation. However, thunderstorms are causing minor wheat harvest disruptions on the southern Plains. Despite recent and ongoing showers, rain is still needed for pastures and rain-fed summer crops across portions of the central and southern Plains.

Across the Corn Belt, chilly weather prevails in the lower Great Lakes region, where Monday’s high temperatures will remain largely below 70°. Elsewhere, Midwestern pastures and summer crops are benefiting from recent topsoil moisture improvements, although pockets of unfavorable dryness persist.

In the South, a broken line of showers and thunderstorms stretches from South Carolina westward into eastern Oklahoma. The rain is providing much-needed moisture for pastures and summer crops, but unfavorably dry conditions persist across the Deep South, excluding the southern Atlantic region.

In the West, markedly cooler air is overspreading the Pacific Coast States. In the Pacific Northwest, widespread rain showers accompany the turn toward cool weather. Meanwhile, warmth lingers across the central and southern Rockies and the Intermountain West.