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.
ADOTRABLE. Where can I get a kitty snowsuit?
Last year we had snow the week of Halloween but it only lasted one day.
Right now we have wind, rain, and warm air from waaaay south of here.
Otherwise, it’s been loss in the 40’s here this year.
“...the benefactors of consolidations...”
Interesting. The one family did have numerous different parcels scattered about the area that I would pheasant hunt on.
Well, that was supposed to read “lows” but autocorrect seems to think it knows better.
Took a couple times until it didn’t “correct” lows above to loss.
It’s been a crazy month, with cold days and days people are out riding their Harleys.
Today was weird.
Horizontal wind with ferocious gusts.
Yet the frogs, salamanders and worms are out of=n the roads, just piddling around.
Birds that should have gone south over a month ago are still here.
No idea what the winter will be.
At this point, I’m just trying not to throw a rope over an attic rafter when the time changes this weekend.
“I can’t wait until it’s dark at 4PM!!!” said no one, ever.
My autocorrect wants me dead.
Daylight savings time, an idea whose end can’t come soon enough.
I hear that.
Mine just obliterates what I’m typing.
Sometimes funny, usually not.
HATE IT
Mine messes up my spelling, adds words I never wrote and deletes ones I did.
It happens on my iPhone which is why I rarely post from it.
It’s determined to make me look like the village idiot.
I love finding words that autocorrect doesn’t know, or have it completely alter much of what I just typed.
As if my typing isn’t bad enough already.
It isn’t unusual for it to snow in October in Colorado, but this is now the third snow, and it has been cold here all week. Usually it warms back up pretty quickly.
Women, minorities, children, LGBQT hardest hit.
Where do you store your day light saved time? I have a drawer in a dresser in our spare bed room. I put the saved daylight time in there every single day. Then on December 10 or so I go to get me some daylight time and it’s gone. It’s pissing me off. I have tried this for years.
LOLOL!
And how did corn futures react to this terrible news? They dropped 4 cents
Most of the harvest is already done, and the remaining feed, seed and ethanol corn will wait.
50 below normal in the Midwest. A look at a few of the forecasts in the Midwest show upper 20s for lows nearly a week from now.
yup.
warmth fuels growth of everything. everything.
co2 is food for plants.
It was 20 degrees in Southern NM this morning and 59 degrees in Sanford, Maine...crazy.
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