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Excerpt from the note that went out to Weather Trends clients yesterday (Monday) morning:
In light of the softer market regarding futures prices, extreme heat across the corn belt this week should add some strength to the sector with widespread warmer temperatures and a drier pattern in the southern belt for several days potentially limiting yields.  [...]

In the Weather & Society Discussion Board (AMS), as expected, there has been an exponential increase in content related to extreme weather in the US over the last two months.  There was one thread in particular that raised a good topic:
 
….strongly recommend Economic and Societal Impacts of Tornadoes just released by Simmons & Sutter, and [...]

As expected, much of the day has been spent assessing the damages associated with yesterday’s devastating tornado outbreak in the southern US.  Currently, this is being ranked as the third deadliest event since 1950.  For one of the American Meteorological Society subgroups in particular, there has been a useful discussion thread which has been very [...]

8PM 27 Apr

The first map below from the Rutgers Snow Cover Lab shows the Northern Hemisphere snow cover anomalies for March 2011.  The second map shows the daily anomaly from yesterday (6 Apr).  We highlight this because the risk of flooding from snowmelt runoff, particularly in the Red River Valley region (MN/ND) is high given the snowpack [...]