There are a lot of producers planting winter wheat and other cover crops that need rain to help establish them before it turns too cold. USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey says they may be getting some soon.
"That will be starting this week," Rippey said. "We're already seeing a few showers early in the week across the Central and Southern Plains and also into the Mid-South."
While those showers are helping in those areas, a bigger storm is starting to form over the Southwest.
"Over the next day or two it's going to bring some highly unusual October showers to the Southwest United States," Rippey said. "That's unusual from a perspective that typically the Southwest really doesn't see their wet season kick in until much later in the year as you head on into December and sometimes even January and February."
Rippey says this system developing over the Southwest is going to head very slowly to the east and northeast over the next several days, which will help the wheat in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. He says the moisture is likely to eventually work its way into the Eastern and Central Corn Belt.
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