SchaumburgStormer Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Allot of what Ive read has signaled that much of the corn crop has been destroyed and even if rain comes its almost a little too late. We now need to shift attention to the soy beans. Yep, I have been reading the same. Was very depressing as I drove to Vandalia, IL today and saw a farmer tilling under his corn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpartyOn Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 6+ billion people around the globe. Just be happy that we all live in the worlds bread basket. Civil unrest and wars in the future will be over food and water. So glad we all live around the worlds greatest freshwater preserve also! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 LAF was running a yearly precip deficit of -8.76" as of last Tuesday morning. Assuming no rain falls tomorrow, LAF would end Monday with a -8.75" yearly deficit...so essentially we have made up no ground but at least didn't fall farther behind in the past week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Cedar Rapids' rainfall deficit is up to -8.42" for the year, with pretty much all of that since May. My gauge has collected 0.39" in July, pretty much on the same pace as June. Iowa City has only received a trace of rain in July. It's nice to see that areas to the east, which had been even drier than Iowa, got at least some decent rain recently, but now much of Iowa is getting worse pretty quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 This is kinda interesting. Drought unearths formerly submerged town. http://www.indystar.com/article/20120721/LOCAL/207210339 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtrackertf Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 This is kinda interesting. Drought unearths formerly submerged town. http://www.indystar....LOCAL/207210339 Wow, that sounds extremely interesting. I'd love to actually go visit that place to see what it's like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aurora Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 This is kinda interesting. Drought unearths formerly submerged town. http://www.indystar....LOCAL/207210339 That is really neat. Too bad the article doesn't have pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizardMafia Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 That is really neat. Too bad the article doesn't have pictures. Weather Channel had this as a story yesterday.. http://www.weather.com/news/indiana-submerged-town-20120721 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 That is really neat. Too bad the article doesn't have pictures. http://interactives.wlfi.com/photomojo/gallery/3568/1/forgotten-city-now-revealed/salamonie-reservoir/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aurora Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Thanks for those links with pictures, guys. Really neat stuff, while at the same time underscoring just how severe the drought is in Indiana right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 2012 on pace to shatter the driest June-July on record for Indianapolis (1871 to present). Driest such periods below. 0.77" in 2012 (through July 23) 2.45" in 1930 2.78" in 1940 3.08" in 1991 3.41" in 1967 3.55" in 1954 3.58" in 1936 3.66" in 1922 3.67" in 1908 3.85" in 1893 3.86" in 1887 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 The Wabash River in Lafayette is down to 1.1 feet. Unreal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 long term deficit/drought conditions remain but we've had enough rain over the last half month or so that everything has pretty much green'd up...looking pretty lush again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 The Wabash River in Lafayette is down to 1.1 feet. Unreal. You were not paying attention. On July 19th, the day of your 0.70 an inch of rain, the river was a 0.82ft. It has gone up since then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 I see the record low river level is 0.24ft. on 8/18/1901. Still have a long way to go to get to that record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 At .24 is it even running? Could u walk across it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Rent Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Drove through southern Ill Sunday. Wow. The corn looks like cornmaze corn, is the best way we could describe it. Everything is so dry. All the electronic road signs are talking about the extreme fire danger, also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpartyOn Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 CNBC had a segment about the midwestern drought. Word on the "street" corn futures will continue to rise to a stunning $10 or higher. Also it really appears the damage is done. This is borderline disturbing given the strain this could put on the global food supply. Lots of worry being priced in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Updated through 11:00am. 0.74" of rainfall this morning through 11:00am at SBN, which brings their July total to 5.25". 0.85" at FWA this morning through 11:00am, bringing their July total to 3.82". Further south in the Indiana, since May 1...IND has only had 3.47" of rainfall, BMG 3.65", and HUF 2.40". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewers Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Not good "Forty-five percent of the corn in the 18 states that planted the most corn acreage last year is in very poor to poor condition as the drought continues across most of the Midwest" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowMeHunter Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Low carb, venison and fish ftw. Not good is the poor livestock suffering in the heat. fattening America could use a corn products cut back for a yr or three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IMADreamer Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Low carb, venison and fish ftw. Not good is the poor livestock suffering in the heat. fattening America could use a corn products cut back for a yr or three. That's a pretty stupid statement, especially in a topic about drought. We aren't talking about people losing weight here we are talking about peoples livelihoods being threatened. The stakes are much bigger then some health nut douchebag smiling at people paying higher prices at the super market. If we don't get this rain Thursday we might as well call the soybean crop toast too. It's really held up pretty well but the last three or four days it's showing it's stress. I walked a field yesterday and there aren't any pods to be found any where. As for corn, we'll probably start harvesting in two weeks. Which is probably three weeks sooner then normal and would be two weeks sooner then last year which was the earliest we had ever harvested before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QVectorman Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Not good "Forty-five percent of the corn in the 18 states that planted the most corn acreage last year is in very poor to poor condition as the drought continues across most of the Midwest" I made mention of this last week. Here are the graphs to back it up. My sister is an agronomist for a crop company in Michigan and said the areas that didn't see any rain have about 2 weeks before the corn crop will be entirely wiped out. Or basically if it doesn't rain before it tassels (2 weeks away). She said it's already a given that the yields are going to be drastically impeded with corn that has survived thus far. But that many farmers have already lost their corn in SE Michigan. Colleagues in Indiana told her that most of the state's corn has already tasseled and they have unofficially lost most of their corn crop. Soy beans aren't great, they have aborted flowering for now which dictates the amount of beans each plant will produce but say they have a chance to bounce back to 100% if the region gets decent rain by early/mid August. Things are not looking good for the top 3 producing states of corn and soybeans. If they don't get a decent soaking of rains in the next two weeks (since the crops across the midwest are almost all at the same development stage for the most part) the U.S. could lose most of it's corn and soybean crop. That means huge price hikes at the grocery store and probably the pump...ethanol. At that point if the drought gets worse it's impact will be on paper with the indices and not much else. The damage and monetary toll will have been done. About the only thing that will still matter to most people is if their lawn is brown or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QVectorman Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 CNBC had a segment about the midwestern drought. Word on the "street" corn futures will continue to rise to a stunning $10 or higher. Also it really appears the damage is done. This is borderline disturbing given the strain this could put on the global food supply. Lots of worry being priced in. Indiana has confirmed their corn is wiped out and Michigan's is tittering on the edge. Some farmers are tilling their corn under in an effort to get wheat planted in time since wheat prices are skyrocketing right now along with corn and soybeans (it's almost doubled in price...even though the July wheat harvest wasn't too bad). Rumor has it that we will be hit harder at the pump (ethanol related) more so than in the grocery store although pain will be felt at both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Precipitation totals/departures (monthly and year to date) for several sites in Indiana... http://765weather.blogspot.com/2012/07/indiana-monthlyyearly-precipitation.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeenerWx Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Going to be interesting to see the new drought monitor map (should be released within the next couple hours). Since the last one I think we picked up about an inch of rain in my local area (Northern Jasper County). Further north and east saw quite a bit more rain than that. Wondering as to how that will change the boundaries of the different drought severities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 I'm a little surprised that extreme conditions remained in that area of northern Indiana. Quite a bit of rainfall in those areas in the last week. Exceptional drought takes a big leap, now up to 18.7% in Indiana. Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewers Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Even with rain around the area this past week no one had their drought conditions improve... Almost 30% of the Midwest is in extreme drought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 And the rest of the Midwest... 70.8% of Illinois in extreme drought, 7.1% exceptional. 68.9% of Missouri in extreme drought, 8.1% exceptional. 27.6% of Iowa in extreme drought. 19.7% of Wisconsin in extreme drought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 I'm surprised at this new update/map this morning. Thought for sure that the D3 conditions would retreat further north in WI. Have had 3.6" of rain in the last week here! ~ Hasn't gotten any worse here so that's good. Edit: Of course some of the rain fell after the data cut off point. Next update should show some improvement over NE Iowa and parts of southern WI - probably central MI too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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