The harvest window is opening wide across Indiana! HAT Chief Meteorologist Ryan Martin’s Harvest Weather Forecast is presented by Beacon Credit Union.
So, how wide of a window are we talking about? Martin says it could be open for the next two and a half weeks!
“As of right now, we’re looking at some slightly cooler air trying to come in behind the frontal boundary that moved through a couple of days ago. This cool air lasts about a day, and then we start to see some very summer like weather coming in for this weekend and all the way through the first half of next week. We’re talking high evaporation rates, low relative humidities and very, very fast drying. Even if you were on the high end of some of the rain ranges here the past few days, you should be able to get right back at it here across the Hoosier State easily over the weekend and through this upcoming week.”
Martin is monitoring a little bit of cloud cover over south and southeastern parts of Indiana Tuesday night and Wednesday.
“If this comes together, it will be due to the remains of a tropical system that comes in through the East Coast and tries to back across the Appalachians. I don’t think this is a big story, but I need to watch it. After that, we’re back to sunny, warm, and dry weather. High pressure is setting up right on top of the Great Lakes the second half of next week, and that keeps us clear and dry on into the week of the 6th. Temperatures will slowly move down a little bit that week, but still no rain in sight through at least the 9th and 10th.”
10 percent of Indiana’s corn and 12 percent of the state’s soybeans are now harvested according to USDA’s Monday report. Both crop’s harvest progress is better than the 5-year average pace, and I get the feeling that number will progress quite nicely over the next two weeks.
Martin’s forecast will be available in written form later Friday at hoosieragtoday.com presented by Beacon Credit Union.
