A Weekly Update From Your Friends at the Red River Farm Network
Monday, August 8, 2011
Weekly News Highlights...
'Severe Drought — The National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska says July was a record-breaking month in parts of the US, with 12 percent of the country under an exceptional drought. This is the largest drought area since the Center began keeping records 12 years ago. Close to 18 percent of the US is experiencing exceptional or extreme drought, with much of it located in the southern US. Forty-one percent of the country faces some sort of abnormal dryness or drought, up from 36 percent a week ago. '
Early Frost — World Weather, Inc. says the Upper Midwest and Northern Plains are still notably behind normal growing degree days, which leaves the region vulnerable to normal or earlier than normal frost and freezes this fall. World Weather, Inc. thinks the Upper Midwest will not see notably later than usual frost and freezes this year, which puts more pressure on the region to have warm weather this month to advance crop development. Fall temperatures are expected to generate a normal to slightly earlier than normal frost and freeze event in the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest. Wisconsin, southern Minnesota, northern Iowa and South Dakota may be the most vulnerable to earlier than usual frost by as much as a week. '
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Monday, August 8, 2011
Weekly News Highlights...
'Severe Drought — The National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska says July was a record-breaking month in parts of the US, with 12 percent of the country under an exceptional drought. This is the largest drought area since the Center began keeping records 12 years ago. Close to 18 percent of the US is experiencing exceptional or extreme drought, with much of it located in the southern US. Forty-one percent of the country faces some sort of abnormal dryness or drought, up from 36 percent a week ago. '
Early Frost — World Weather, Inc. says the Upper Midwest and Northern Plains are still notably behind normal growing degree days, which leaves the region vulnerable to normal or earlier than normal frost and freezes this fall. World Weather, Inc. thinks the Upper Midwest will not see notably later than usual frost and freezes this year, which puts more pressure on the region to have warm weather this month to advance crop development. Fall temperatures are expected to generate a normal to slightly earlier than normal frost and freeze event in the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest. Wisconsin, southern Minnesota, northern Iowa and South Dakota may be the most vulnerable to earlier than usual frost by as much as a week. '
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