More drought-relieving rainfall is expected from Friday through the weekend in the United States crop belt, which is slowly recovering soil moisture after suffering the worst dry spell in decades last year. Agricultural meteorologists said wet weather is forecast for …
This season’s abnormally hot weather has caused dry conditions in nearly every state, from Alaska to extreme drought in Hawaii. According to the USDA, more than half of all counties in the U.S. have been designated disaster areas in 2012, …
Light showers overnight in the southwestern U.S. Midwest were too little too late to prevent further losses to corn and soybean yields, and next week will bring the return of high heat and drought, an agricultural meteorologist forecast Thursday. Rain …
Midday weather updates on Wednesday indicate more hot, dry weather for the U.S. Midwest, where corn and soybean crops are rapidly deteriorating amid the harshest drought in more than half a century. “It’s a little wetter for next week in …