Temperatures are warming up in the Northern Plains. Planting progress is expected in the next two weeks. “There will still be some interruptions with cool fronts coming along, but it won’t be anything like we’ve seen in recent weeks. It will be enough to set off a little bit of shower activity, but that precipitation shouldn’t be great enough to have a serious disruptive factor,” explained Drew Lerner, senior agricultural meteorologist, World Weather Incorporated. “As the soil temperatures rise, we should be able to work fields without the fear of a weather event coming to interrupt.” Lerner cautions farmers about a potential round of cool weather coming up in May. “From mid-May to the third week of the month, there could be another round of interesting, cool weather. We will have to recover from that event and we might end up with a fair amount of rainfall,” said Lerner. “Conditions for the next two weeks look good. After that, we may see more disruptive weather.”
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