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.
As a kid (I'm 72), I live in Rochester, New York and remember having to wear our winter jackets under our Halloween costumes just to go trick or treating.
....my brother and I were chatting tonight about the cold nights we went Halloweening and had to wear our coats it was so cold.
Here in Western Pa Halloween was postponed until tomorrow night or Sat. because of rain and wind gusts up to 75 mph....temps will drop to the 30’s later.
LOL!! Thanks for the laugh!!
Hey, I didn't take the measurements!
Same Middletown and Montgomery side of things in NY.
I lived in Sussex NJ back in the 80’s and remember freezing my backside off every Halloween.
While CA is trying to blame their mismanagement on Global Warming.
Same, but in Northern NJ.
But remember, it’s the warmest EVER, they said so.
Lol
Good thing we have that 0.7 degree rise in temperatures over the next century to count on thanks to global warming. Without that we might freeze. :-/
Howdy. I haven’t improved at all, but I fight on. Just praying for some kind of miracle now.
Thanks.
Same with the soy beans they have been setting in the fields ready for harvest. I to was surprised by the writers lack of knowledge.
Same with the soy beans they have been setting in the fields ready for harvest. I to was surprised by the writers lack of knowledge.
It’s not supposed to be this cold in October?
How ‘bout tomorrow, when it’s November?
Corn is harvested after it snows quite often, but not always after the prolonged, in the ground snow. Not unusual for corn to be harvested mid-November, at least in Michigan. Seems like the weather is more in line with my childhood.
Indeed. All roads lead to higher taxes and fewer services and resources according to those chowderheads “because whatever bad.”
We’re all going to die!
They were possibly the benefactors of consolidations. A lot of folks have give up farming to the point where family farms a slender fraction of what they were a century ago.
Quick, launch some airplanes and feed all the cows beans!!!
Western MD mountains had tornado warnings all night.
We don’t get tornadoes because they fizz out as soon as they hit all the mountains.
WTF.
The wind is blowing like mad, even back here in my holler, where we never get wind.
Van Halen song “Right Now” says “Right now is just a space between ice ages”.
Only Van Hagar song I ever liked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMV-fenGP1g
Couple years ago at the beginning of October, we had a combo snow/ice storm.
The leaves were still on my trees and I spent hours in the cold, smacking the ice off them so they wouldn’t break.
Thank God this October was not like that one
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