If your crops are ready to go, you’ll have a big harvest window opening up. That’s the word from Michigan Ag Today Chief Meteorologist Ryan Martin in our first Seed Genetics Direct Harvest Weather Forecast update of the season. Seed Genetics Direct- Value. Knowledge. Performance. It’s in their genetics.
The forecast shows Michigan mostly dry as we move through the next week to week-and-a-half. A big-time weather system is trying to come together to our west, over the Upper Midwest, as we go into the start of the weekend. Normally, we watch these systems cross the Great Lakes and move right in here, but it looks like the low wants to take more of a northeasterly track through Minnesota and stay to the west side of Lake Superior. And then, the low doesn’t even really move away, it falls apart.
Right now, we’re not seeing much moisture make it into Michigan proper. A few hit-and-miss scattered showers could occur, but high pressure seems to want to dominate and take control by Monday afternoon. If that’s the case, we’re looking at dry weather through the rest of next week. At this point in time, it’s feasible that we see no precipitation from Sunday through next Saturday. Even late next week, the system tries to come together down over the Ohio Valley and may throw a little bit of cloud cover and moisture into Indiana, but there would be nothing coming toward Michigan right now.
We are dry all the way through next weekend, the weekend of Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. We don’t have a lot of opportunity for moisture here, so crops will continue to dry down quickly. As the crops that are just starting to turn now move forward, they will likely dry faster and turn faster.
Harvest will be in full bore within the next week to 10 days with this dry feature trying to move in.
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