Sept 30, 2024: Drought Expansion and Wildfires | Sept Precip Stats | Tropical Development in Gulf...

[@aaronjones1469]

Awesome video Eric. Great job. 😊👍

[@cbrentv3]

Watching from Murfreesboro Tennessee. Enjoy your post. Great job

[@pc5569]

I just cannot fathom that amount of rain in that short time.

[@williamschablowsky5764]

Thanks for the forecast, 10 inches of rain in southern Illinois in September. I look forward to a dry October.

[@danl9334]

thank you!!!

[@M8Stealth]

About 100 miles S-SE of Fargo and this is what i see in my fields...Too much rain in the spring limited normal deep root development to tap the traditional late summer water needs from the deep clay loam soils. When the rain turned off, the crop, especially corn, simply did a death rush to finish and therefore didn't need the heat to mature. What looks like beautiful ears filled to the tip in reality have tiny little kernels. Accumulated GDUs says the corn planted the last week of April should be right at black layer now at 30%+ moisture, in reality it's around 20% moisture. Combines are starting in corn now that edibles and soybeans are wrapping up. Too warm for sugar beets this week.

[@tedbrown414]

did you see the dust storms in the Columbia Basin?!?!

[@Nutrien_AgSolutions]

yes! those were BAD

[@floydblandston108]

About those NE 'valley fogs'; those look like 1200'ers. When I drove Schoolbus, the route took me up to the top (2000' el.) of our local cuesta, with a full 70 mile view east over the main valley. If the timing was right, you could see the flow of the fog like a river, watching it twist around hillocks and tumble deeply into narrow gorges- a topo map come to life. As I drove around, I would compare this spring and fall phenomena to the native and managed vegetation/land use relative to each elevation. Combine this with our regions history as a glacial lake basin, and I've sited 100 orchards in my mind (and one in reality), bought and sold fields, and understood my neighbors farms as well as they know them themselves.

[@nilesthoma4880]

Extremely dry....in north east colorado When will relieve come? Oct...nov...next march....when?

[@dgsantafedave1]

Does all the rain that hit the Appalachia's find it's way to the Mississippi?

[@JamesRegis-g9j]

We are already a desert here in SE Kansas. Our biggest rain since May ‘21 was 3”. A 6” rain is simply an event of the past. I hate living here now.

[@RobiPerk0125]

Haha

[@alphared4655]

Kansas seems to be a desert more often than not. I remember Wizard of Oz and how Kansas was a barren wasteland.

[@thomasroever1354]

This WPO is really messing up the sensible weather across the Central US. The meager rains we got from Helene here in the Eastern Ozarks will be a distant memory. Guess this dryness will last well into November. Dryness is getting old year after year high pressure after high pressure. Guess Central US will be a desert soon.

[@nilesthoma4880]

Seems that way

[@RobiPerk0125]

Hot fall , hot winter , very hot spring and infernal heat dome in summer 😂

[@thomasroever1354]

@@RobiPerk0125 Look out Arizona were catching up 😂

[@RobiPerk0125]

@@thomasroever1354 hahaha

[@JamesRegis-g9j]

I also hate this forecast…..

[@thomasroever1354]

@@JamesRegis-g9j I do too. All that red color only to get worse with drought expanding further.

[@RobiPerk0125]

Haha