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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Same here. Although that could be we are less tolerant of the cold and crappy weather than we used to be.
I know I’m less tolerant of it, lol.
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