Posted on 10/31/2019 7:49:37 PM PDT by Windflier
It isn’t supposed to be this cold in October. The official start of winter is still almost two months away, and yet the weather in much of the western half of the country right now resembles what we might expect in mid-January. All-time record lows for the month of October are being set in city after city, and this extremely cold air is going to push into the Midwest by the end of the week.
Temperatures in the heartland will be up to 50 degrees below normal, and unfortunately about half of all corn still has not been harvested. Due to unprecedented rainfall and extreme flooding early in the year, many farmers faced extraordinary delays in getting their crops planted, and so they were hoping that good weather at the end of the season would provide time for the crops to fully mature and be harvested. Unfortunately, a nightmare scenario has materialized instead. A couple of monster snow storms have already roared through the Midwest, and now record low temperatures threaten to absolutely wreck the rest of the harvest season.
When temperatures get significantly below zero for more than a few hours, scientists tell us that it will kill standing corn…
And right now we are facing a crisis because less than half of all U.S. corn has been harvested.
In fact, according to the latest USDA Crop Progress Report just 41 percent of all U.S. corn has been harvested so far…
In its weekly Crop Progress Report, the USDA pegged the U.S. corn harvest at 41% complete, below the trade’s expectation of 48% and below a five-year average 61%.
Minnesota is behind the most regarding picking corn: 22% vs. a 56% five-year average.
So when I used the term “nightmare scenario” earlier, I was not exaggerating.
The low temperatures that we have seen this week are hard to believe. According to USA Today, the temperature in one community in Utah actually hit 45 degrees below zero on Wednesday…
Subzero cold was recorded as far south as the Grand Canyon on Wednesday morning, the Weather Channel said. Big Piney, Wyoming, plunged to minus 24 degrees before sunrise Wednesday.
Notorious cold spot Peter Sinks, Utah, dipped to an incredible minus 45 degrees early Wednesday. This appeared to be the coldest October temperature on record anywhere in the Lower 48 states, according to Utah-based meteorologist Timothy Wright.
That is seriously cold.
Can I get a refund for these carbon credits?
“TURN THOSE MACHINES BACK ON!”
How are you doing Windflier? Pray that you are healing. This has been the coldest October where I live in Eastern Nor Cal since the early 1990s. Got down to 13° here this morning.
There are a sh*t ton of soybeans here that haven't been harvested yet and they're now LOST due to the torrential rains we've had and now the snow.
I hope you all had corn and soybean futures back in the spring like I did because the money you're going to make today will pay for the higher food bills next season.
30? Time to buy a coat...
There’s a war going on here. It’s the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere mixed with the Dems thirst for power vs. the alignment of the planets.
Right now the alignment of the planets predicts cold winters in the near term. In the long term that phenomenon will repeat itself interrupted by periods of normal temperatures and overly warm temperatures.
Forever.
The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere will be background noise. If it does one day become a problem we will just suck it out of the atmosphere and store it in tanks or crack it open and release the oxygen. And we will keep driving our gasoline powered cars and flying our jet fuel powered airplanes.
Where in Tennessee? I'll be in Chattanooga next week for final interviews for a new position and looking for homes in that area.
Thank you for stating the facts
Even when it blows down, they put big tine reels on the corn head to flick it up off the ground
Only thing that will stop them now is wet
Who says God doesn’t have a sense of humor
“He shall have them in derision. He shall laugh them to scorn”
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I’m about 2 hours NW of Chattanooga near Nashville. Virtually the same weather.
This is freeze-dried corn we’re talking about.
I buy most of my corn frozen anyway.
I had 5 inches of snow in my yard last month on a day when the average temperature was almost 60. My cat freaked out and so did I.
Actually that was a day or two after that awful Greta shill was claiming I was ruining her childhood (How Dare I?) because the planet was too hot. Every9one in town was laughing about that awful Global Warming.
I am OK with whatever the weather man brings, but my poor kitty has hissy fits when she can’t go out.
It’s hard to keep up with all the doomsday predictions:
https://www.azocleantech.com/news.aspx?newsID=26700
Trading Places! Yeah!!
What a crock! I live in Central NY State in Rome, NY, which is about an hour east of Syracuse...in the foothills of the Adirondacks. We’ve had snow, and cold, and crappy weather plenty of times over the years in October, especially around, or on Halloween. I’m currently visiting my son in Indiana, and the temperature at this moment is 30 degrees, and it was snowing this afternoon. I talked to my oldest son tonight, who lives in Troy, New York, just outside of Albany, and it was around 70 there today. The temperature in Rome at the moment is 57.
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