IOWA CITY, Iowa (RFD News) — El Niño could bring favorable weather across much of the Corn Belt over the next couple of weeks, with some drought-stricken areas potentially seeing needed rainfall.
Meteorologist John Baranick says active conditions could bring showers farther north into the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
“I expect a lot of the same kind of situation going on here for the next couple of weeks. Corn Belt weather looks to be very active and favorable, not everywhere. And we’ll see if we can get a little bit farther north than the main zone that we’re seeing right now, which is kind of Nebraska through the Ohio Valley. We get some of those showers a little bit farther north into the Dakotas, into Minnesota and Wisconsin. That would be super helpful. A lot of those areas that have been dealing with drought for much of the summer. So that would be great to see. There’s potential for some of that to happen, not this week, but maybe next week.”
The latest Drought Monitor shows more than 50 percent of the Lower 48 experiencing some level of drought conditions.
