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Storms, heat & humidity on the Plains
Jul 18, 2017, 18:06 PM
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Across the Corn Belt, hot, dry weather prevails, except for cooler conditions and scattered thunderstorms across the upper Midwest. Tuesday’s high temperature should approach or reach 95° in the middle Mississippi Valley. Meanwhile, pockets of unfavorable dryness persist in the western and central Corn Belt. In Iowa, for example, statewide topsoil moisture was rated 51% very short to short on July 16.
On the Plains, overnight thunderstorms across the northern half of the region provided much-needed rainfall but caused local wind and hail damage.
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