Soilmoisture anomaly:

These maps sometimes take a day to catch up to incorporate the latest data(the bottom map is only updated once a week).

https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/Soilmst_Monitoring/US/Soilmst/Soilmst.shtml#

                       ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

July 7, 2022-update

       U.S. Drought Monitor

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/CompareTwoWeeks.aspx

This week's drought monitor shows a marked expansion of dryness in the eastern belt (IL, IN, mid-south, Delta) from the previous week. Dry conditions now cover 58% of Illinois and 88% of Indiana, both the most since Oct. 2020.

@kannbwx

1h

The drought monitor can sometimes be a lagging indicator, but the trend is backed up here by the monthly precip anomalies. That same problem area mentioned above has gotten well below normal rainfall this month. In fact, almost none of the Corn Belt has been distinctly wet.

         Drought monitor previous years:

Anybody else have rain amounts?

MetMike

Is today's rally indicative of selling exhaustion or weather forecasts becoming more 'bullish' (or at least less bearish)?

(Remove to different topic if you prefer)

Thanks tjc,

I've been discussing the specific details of what's going on with the grains and weather here:

https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/86654/#86810

That hasn't changed in the last hour.

Did you get any rain tjc?

  No rain (yet) in north central  LaSalle County, I80 and Rt 71.

  West looks pretty dark.  Forecast 1 plus over next 6-7 hours

  .3 Tuesday after .3 Saturday

Parts of southern LaSalle County (BIG county) had 3 inches Saturday

Thanks!

Frustrating when a big rain just misses you in a drought like this.

Good luck! If you miss these rains, chances get pretty low for awhile. 

For those wondering where that is:

Here's the radar images:

https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/83844/

https://www.weather.gov/ilx/weatherstory

Just checked the rain gauge and our total from the earlier showers was .47!

That's more than the total amount of the previous month!

For those that don't follow on a regular basis. This current drought is mainly from the long lived natural La Nina, which is cool water anomalies in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean.

If you have a source that is telling you that its from the climate crisis.........FIND another source that actually understands weather/climate!

Climate change has blessed the Midwest with the best 3 decades of growing season weather since we've been able to record it in the Midwest!

https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/83698/

HEAVIEST Rains are diving south.

Sorry to say for you tjc. May be taking aim at us.

Looks like the top amount of rain in your county from this event was around .11 with everyone else getting less )-:

The rains split down here, most going north and we got just .04 additional but  now at .51 total with continued rain chances thru tomorrow evening.

received 2/10 yesterday

bigger rains to the east and south yesterday

hope Mcfarm gets some today

hope it can stay together to get some here today

not a chance cutworm. Watched another come from west of St Louis come all the way to the west side if Indy today hoping against hope that it would stay together. Never got the road wet. We are 4/1oths since June 5th or so

This is the best site that I know of which updates rain amounts. Unfortunately, it doesn't allow me to cut and paste/copy anything which is my favorite way to display data here.

https://www.iweathernet.com/total-rainfall-map-24-hours-to-72-hours

However, I've found them to be WAY off compared to my backyard rain gauge, so it obviously goes off of radar returns..........which estimates rainfall from return signatures well ABOVE the ground and it doesn't know what makes/made it to the surface.

For our Indiana producers, mcfarm and cutworm,  rain chances are still elevated for more than the next day........let's hope you get a big one!

I'm sure you guys can appreciate the first post X10!

I noted on the site/link above that you guys got totally ripped off with rains all around but a giant band of almost no rains which is  around 150 miles wide starting way back in IA, where it's just northeast of Des Moines, then continues across North/Central IL, then  to all of Central Indiana.

If there's anything that REALLY hurts the most is when alot of people get rain in a drought..........but not you!

tallpine, how much rain did you get in Iowa?

Day 1 below:

http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/fill_94qwbg.gif?1526306199054

Day 2 below:

http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/fill_98qwbg.gif?1528293750112

Update on I8o and Rt 71   ZIP!!  All pushes south, and not much

Supposedly 60% from 7pm tonight to 2pm tomorrow

Thanks tjc (-:

Anybody in IL/IN could get 2+ inches of rain the next 24 hours..........or they could miss.

Many folks will get a nice rain(s), others will not get much in those 2 states.

  We missed on Thursday, nothing over night.  All rain south     Very humid and overcast   looks like a miss

  It is raining   Now suggesting moderate rain into this late evening 

  Total .6     Nothing in ten day forecast

8/10 total here since 7-6

Thanks for the rain reports. 

I got another .8 for a total of 1.31. 

Total .6 ......

that's frustrating with so much heavier rain around you, especially south and also east.

https://www.iweathernet.com/total-rainfall-map-24-hours-to-72-hours

We got another .1 here for around 1.4 just north of Evansville.