While this growing season has not be overly hot as measured by high temperature, our overnight low temperatures have been well above average. The featured map displays the percentile for growing degree days since 1 May (a value of 100 implies the largest accumulation on record for the site). Most of the state is shown in the 80-90+ percentile. The result is the corn and soybean crops are well ahead of schedule this year.

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