Rainfall across the northern U.S. Midwest over
the next 10 days will provide some relief for the drought-stricken corn
and soybean crops, but more rain is needed to stem further crop losses,
agricultural meteorologists said on Tuesday.
Rains
from central Minnesota eastward to the northern regions of Illinois,
Indiana and Ohio since late Monday through midday Tuesday averaged 0.75
inch to 1.25 inch, said Joel Widenor, an agricultural forecaster with
Commodity Weather Group. Heavier amounts of up to 2.0 inches fell in
central and southeastern Minnesota.
The
midday U.S. weather outlook turned a little drier for this week, with
60 to 65 percent of the Midwest expected to get rain versus 80 percent
in an earlier run, Widenor said. The six to 10-day model run was the
same, continuing to show "extensive" rains for the Midwest, but the
11-15 day outlook was drier for the central and northeastern Midwest.
"We
will still pull some thunder showers out of the Central Plains on
Thursday and bring them through northern Missouri out towards central
Illinois, Indiana and Ohio by late Thursday into Friday," said Widenor,
noting that more rain is needed to eliminate Midwest dryness.
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