Back in ancient times, whole continents knew how to cuddle. Now the best we can do is dogs and cats, living together:
Posted on 06/03/2025 9:18:18 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Illinois’ unpredictable weather is throwing a curveball to the state’s farmers.
Some areas of the state are significantly behind in rainfall and early indications are that the conditions will persist this summer.
“It has just been super dry from Springfield and Peoria up to Rockford and especially over the Chicago area we have had half of our normal rain, a third of our normal rain,” said CBS Chicago meteorologist David Yeomans during an Illinois Soybean Association webinar.
According to the latest crop progress and condition report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, nearly a fifth of farmers who responded said their topsoil is short of moisture.
Yeomans said a combination of factors led to an unusual weather event on May 16.
“That dry soil combined with an incredible straight-line wind gust from a thunderstorm led to a remarkable dust storm, including in the Chicago area, but I know it was even worse down on many of your farms,” said Yeomans. “This was a full blown haboob and usually happens in Saudi Arabia, or in Arizona and Texas in the U.S.”
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“Illinois’ unpredictable weather is throwing a curveball to the state’s farmers.”
Just like it has since the last Ice Age retreated?
Because weather patterns have never changed in Illinois.........
Evidently, the author has never heard of the Farmers Almanac that has tried to predict crop yields for decades. That said, Illinois doesn’t have very serious drought conditions yet. The state has areas of no drought, dry conditions and moderate drought. This is nothing new for midwest farmers..
I saw no mention of “climate change”. Good for them.
Check on the BS with US Drought Monitor. Just a glance would suggest Illinois conditions are due to random, localized probability.
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap.aspx
They’re about to get rain late tonight and into tomorrow.
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?IL
Weather always changes, and long-term patterns are difficult to predict and to attribute.
The earth doing what it does because it doesn’t give a crap about anybody us. Bring back pangea!
It is a little dry here in the Rockford area. We do need more rain, I just wish it wouldn’t take so long to get out of the 40s and 50s every year. It’s warmer NOW. I seem to remember the 1960s being warmer in April and May than it has been in recent years.
I just looked the radar- we have storms a-comin in very soon…
I live in downstate Illinois away from Lake Michigan. Not sure about Rockford, but my experience is if you live near the lake temperatures can lag about a month behind from downstate locations. I went to boot camp way back in the day at Great Lakes Naval training center and froze my rear end off even at the beginning of May..
Back in ancient times, whole continents knew how to cuddle. Now the best we can do is dogs and cats, living together:
haha
Such geniuses
Double LOL....
We don’t get lake effect winds or snow here, I just remember from my youth we were already enjoying the outdoors a lot earlier than we do now.
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