Across the Corn Belt, dry weather accompanies a gradual warming trend. Still, Wednesday’s high temperatures will remain below 90° throughout the Midwest, favoring reproductive to filling summer crops. Limited moisture reserves remain a concern for upper Midwestern corn and soybeans; on August 1, statewide topsoil moisture was rated at least one-half very short to short in North Dakota (91%), South Dakota (84%), Minnesota (81%), and Iowa (50%).
On the Plains, a band of scattered showers extends southward from the western Dakotas.
