North Central Drought from an Agriculture Perspective – Posted April 24, 2024
Of course, they will worry about drought in the North Central area because drought at the beginning of a growing season can be problematic. The beginning of the growing season is a very critical time. It seems that they do not have to worry about a late start this year. But an early start has its own problems. Weather can be fickle.
Although this webinar focuses on the North Central states, many of the maps cover the entire 48 states in CONUS so there is something for everyone in this report. I did not comment on every slide as there were a lot of them. But where I commented, my comment is in a box. If you watch the full webinar (I provided the link) you get their commentary and the Q&A which was good.
| You can see the large number of much above-average temperature states. Many of these were in the North Central area. |
| The North Central had average to slightly above normal precipitation. It was very wet in the Northeast. |
| Jan to March shows a similar situation but more states were above average or much above average. |
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| This shows the El Nino pattern but not dramatically wet except in the Northeast. |