Weather extremes hang over planting season

April is a month when you can really see some weather extremes, but what we saw yesterday was simply incredible. We set record low maximum temperatures yesterday in southeastern Iowa as places there did not see readings get out of the 30s and low 40s. However, as close by as St. Louis we were scoring record HIGHS yesterday as the high temperature there got to an incredible 88 degrees.

In other words, we had high temperatures differences yesterday of nearly 50 degrees over the span of only about 200 miles! It was this extreme temperature contrast that set off yet another major severe weather outbreak the past 24 hours in the southern/eastern Corn Belt through the northern Delta, with lots of reports of tornadoes, high winds, and large hail. Probably most notable about that severe weather was reports of winds in excess of 100 miles per hour at locations in both Illinois and Ohio. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine and International Milling Directory from Perendale Publishers