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A strong fall storm system will bring areas of heavy rain, strong winds, and even some snow to parts of the Plains and Midwest this week.

Some heat early in the fall in the middle of the country will be favorable for the continuing harvest for the next couple of weeks, but fall has to arrive at some point. Can it happen in mid or late October?

Vegetation health analysis reinforces ideas of needed moisture as late summer approaches

Normal, and, phoenix, youre going to be 12 degrees above where you should be. i know youre supposed to be hot, but not 120. thats where were seeing temperatures across the south. and in the deep south, theres the humidity. in baton rouge, youll see 112. not the humidity of phoenix or vegas, but they would like some. what makes the temperatures go away is the monsoon season in the desert southwest. we start to see humidity come in and then around 90, 95 degrees, the thundershowers come up. that h...

A heat dome will spread above-normal temperatures into much of the U.S. next week. Heat stress will be coming at an inopportune time for pollinating and filling corn as well as filling soybeans. There is some potential for rainfall across some areas, but an overall hotter and drier period should stress both crops.

Its a popular topic when drought becomes entrenched, but its not always an easy answer.

Officially for the first time this season. severe drought conditions across western parts of the state, and the eastern part, you might be scratching your head saying, hey, there was massive flooding. with these new extremes in the new world were living in, you go from your record precipitation over the course of the winter to now severe drought conditions. these big swings. >> these big swings. with these new extremes, the new world that were living in, you go from near record precip over the c...

A derecho brought widespread wind damage and hurricane-force winds to Illinois and surrounding areas along the Iowa-Missouri border and into southern Indiana on June 29.

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