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Environment & Energy

emmadoggy

(2,142 posts)

7. I'm in the northeast corner of Iowa.

Reply to CoffeeCat (Reply #3)

Wed Jul 4, 2012, 12:19 AM

Jul 2012

The corn fields around here are starting to curl up pretty badly. Some corn looks "ok", but a lot is curling. The beans look a bit wilty.

The weather IS horrendous. More than a week of 90-100 degree temps already. Dew points in the 70's. Today through Friday are supposed to be the worst of all with temps at or above 100 and heat indices up to 115. Nighttime lows only reaching the mid to upper 70's. We had a VERY mild, dry winter and a dry spring. And we had precious little rain in June. Rain chances for the next several days are almost nil.

Everything is baking to a crisp.