Weather

Dry weather remains a concern in the Eastern Corn Belt

On the Plains, heat and dryness sustain rapid dry-down and harvesting of hard red winter wheat in southern production areas, as well as advanced development of sorghum and other summer row crops. A Red Flag warning is in effect for the central High Plains.

Across the Corn Belt, warm, dry weather maintains concern for potential additional stress on vegetative to reproductive corn and soybeans in the central Mississippi and Ohio Valleys.

In the South, Tropical Storm Debbie is generating locally heavy rain and some severe weather over Florida and southern Georgia as it sits nearly stationary less than 100 miles south of the south of the Florida Panhandle.

In the West, sunny skies are advancing development of cotton, rice, and other irrigated summer crops in California and Arizona. However, a Red Flag Warning remains in effect for much of the Intermountain West, indicating a high potential for the development and spread of wild fires.