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Good + Excellent Corn

23 Aug 2024 05:30 AM
The corn and soybean crops this year continue to look in great shape thanks to sufficient rain and limited hot weather. The featured map presents recent USDA NASS estimated percentage of corn crop acres currently in good or excellent condition. The values are color coded by departure from a recent ten year average approximately valid for this day of the year. Much of the corn belt is shown in great shape and much of the potential yield is already on board as corn reaches maturity. Soybeans could certainly still use more rain to support yields and even corn to help improve grain quality. August does look to end on a hot note, so more rain would certainly help reduce late season water stress.

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Tags:   nass   corn   2024  

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Warmest Winter *

04 Mar 2024 05:30 AM
For the winter season comprising the months of December thru February and considering an average daily temperature, many sites in the upper Midwestern US had their warmest winter on record. As the feature title denotes, there is a bit of an asterisk to this statement. The asterisk is the consideration of the winter of 1877-1878, which is before the period of record starts for the vast majority of long term climate data for the region. The featured table presents some IEM computed winter season average temperature records for selected sites over the region. The warmest value is highlighted. For a number of sites with data for 1877-1878, that winter was much warmer than our most recently finished one. Minneapolis and Milwaukee are exceptions with this winter warmer than the 1877-1878 one. The official NCEI statewide data starts in 1895, so it may end up showing this winter as the warmest on record for a number of states (including Iowa), but that statistic would not include 1877-1878. Another interesting data point is Bismarck, ND, whose warmest winter was 1930-1931 and that even includes the 1877-1878 one.

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Tags:   winter   2024  

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February Record Highs

27 Feb 2024 05:30 AM
It was a record setting day in Iowa on Monday with the following first-order NWS climate sites either tying or setting new February high temperature records.

Having Waterloo and Mason City best their previous February records by seven degrees each is very remarkable! The featured chart presents the current monthly high temperature records for Dubuque. Temperatures will again be quite warm on Tuesday, but take a very abrupt downturn in the afternoon.

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Tags:   2024   feb