Across the Corn Belt, rain showers spreading across areas west of the Mississippi River are further improving topsoil moisture but providing only limited benefit for maturing corn and soybeans that have been adversely affected by drought. Chilly weather accompanies the upper Midwestern rain; Thursday’s high temperatures will remain below 70°F in parts of Minnesota and the eastern Dakotas. Meanwhile, the remainder of the Corn Belt is experiencing mild, dry weather.
On the Plains, tropical moisture interacting with a cold front is producing a band of rain stretching from the Dakotas to western Texas.
