Across the Corn Belt, heat has crept into southwestern production areas (e.g. Missouri), where Wednesday’s high temperatures should approach 100°F. Meanwhile, scattered showers and thunderstorms across the southern and eastern Corn Belt are benefiting summer crops, while extremely dry conditions are maintaining significant crop stress in the far upper Midwest.
On the Plains, mostly dry conditions persist, despite the passage of a cold front across Montana and the Dakotas. The front has only slightly reduced temperatures across the northern Plains, which continue to suffer from a long-running drought.
