Weather

Heat wave continues across most of the Heartland

On the Plains, relatively cool conditions in Texas contrast with above-normal temperatures farther north. Monday’s high temperatures will exceed 100° on the central High Plains, where the ongoing heat wave continues to stress both rain-fed and irrigated summer crops.

Across the Corn Belt, a record-shattering heat wave continues to trim yield prospects for reproductive corn and soybeans across drought-affected southern and eastern portions of the region. In addition, heat is spreading into the upper Midwest, where some corn is beginning to silk and some soybeans have begun to bloom.

In the South, beneficial showers are providing very localized and limited relief from record-setting heat. On Sunday, all-time records were set or tied in Southeastern locations such as Chattanooga, Tennessee (107°F), and Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina (107°). Triple-digit temperatures can be expected again Monday in much of the Southeast, where reproductive summer crops continue to wither.

In the West, more than four dozen large wildfires continue to burn from Arizona and New Mexico northward into Montana. Mostly above-normal temperatures prevail in the West, except along the Pacific Coast.