High temperatures will reach into the upper 80s, 90s and a few 100-degree readings across the Red River Farm Network listening area this week. Tomorrow will be extremely hot. Nutrien Ag Solutions Principal Atmospheric Scientist Eric Snodgrass says La Nina is still quite strong, pushing a ridge back into the central United States. Snodgrass isn’t worried about what this heat will do to crops in the Dakotas and Minnesota. “It seems in the short term, it may be hot, but there will be a greater chance for storms,” says Snodgrass. “I think the crop will finish, but in some areas it may finish in dry conditions. It’s a flip from what happened earlier this season. I hope we’ll have good grain fill and we get a longer fall with a good dry down.” This week, the crop growing areas that will struggle the most with the hot conditions will be Iowa and Nebraska. “By mid-week, we could see overnight lows in 80 degrees. It’s the wrong time of the year for that kind of heat.”
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