Weather
Wide-range of temperatures across the Heartland
Across the Corn Belt, warm weather across the upper Midwest is helping to push developmentally delayed corn and soybeans toward maturity. Foggy weather lingers early Tuesday, however, in the central and eastern Corn Belt.
On the Plains, dry weather favors fieldwork and summer crop maturation. However, near- to slightly below-normal temperatures on the southern Plains contrast with a late-season heat wave on the northern High Plains.
In the South, Harvey made its final landfall early Tuesday near Cameron, Louisiana, with maximum sustained winds near 45 mph. Significant flooding developed overnight along and near the Texas-Louisiana border, where torrential rain continues. Meanwhile, locally heavy showers are spreading inland as far east as southern Alabama and western Florida. Weather conditions are improving, however, along the Mid-Atlantic coast.
In the West, hot, mostly dry weather continues. An elevated risk of wildfires exists across parts of the Northwest, which is already contending with a rash of fires. The greatest concentration of active fires exists across western sections of Oregon and Montana.
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