Across the Corn Belt, lingering showers are confined to the Ohio and middle Mississippi Valleys. Dry weather covers the remainder of the Midwest. Heat has begun to build across drought-affected sections of the upper Midwest, where Thursday’s high temperatures should range from 90 to 95°F. By June 27, one-tenth to one-quarter of the soybeans were blooming—2 to 11 percentage points ahead of average—in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and South Dakota.
On the Plains, intensifying heat across Montana and the Dakotas—accompanied by ongoing drought—is another blow to filling winter wheat and spring-sown crops.
