Across the Corn Belt, showers and thunderstorms are occurring across southern corn and soybean production areas, mainly from Missouri into the Ohio Valley. Meanwhile, cool, dry weather across the remainder of the Midwest favors reproductive to filling summer crops. However, patchy drought exists in several areas, particularly from northeastern Nebraska into central Iowa and in the eastern Corn Belt.

On the Plains, mostly dry weather accompanies a surge of cooler air. Showers linger, however, across the southeastern Plains.

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