Warmer and drier conditions into early November favor harvest activities

The last full week of October, week-ending October 29, started with very heat, nearly summer-like temperatures throughout parts of the Corn Belt, however temperatures cooled down within the second half of the week. Rain, a few of it heavy, fell within the southern Plains and up into southern Missouri with almost an inch of rain even up into Des Moines, Iowa. The rain helped to enhance drought conditions from jap Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas to western Missouri. However, a big portion of the Mississippi and Ohio River Valleys noticed drought severity enhance in response to the United States Drought Monitor as of October 25.

Temperatures for October 2022 as an entire within the Corn Belt trended nearer to regular. Colder than regular temperatures had been extra widespread within the jap Corn Belt whereas hotter than regular temperatures had been extra widespread within the western Corn Belt. Widespread freezing temperatures within the third week of October, week-ending October 22, gave strategy to close to summer-like heat late that week. 

According to knowledge from WeatherTrends360 this was the third driest October in 30+ years for the Corn Belt as an entire. While the dry conditions had been favorable for fieldwork and harvest, because the winter season rapidly approaches the present state of drought is a sign of the place we’ll begin the 2023 planting season by way of soil moisture and drought conditions.

In the quick time period, November 2022 will start with hotter and drier than regular climate within the Corn Belt. Much of the area will probably be between storm techniques within the week-ending November 5, which is able to preserve a big portion of the realm drier than regular. A chilly entrance transferring by means of late within the week would be the focus for showers and maybe thunderstorms. Colder climate is predicted within the northern Plains and higher Midwest by late within the week.

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