Weather Should Cooperate if Fields are Ready for Harvest
Chief Meteorologist Ryan Martin is looking at 10 days of dry weather across Michigan to kick off harvest season. It’s time now for our first Seed Genetics Direct Harvest Weather Forecast of the season.
Martin is calling for sunny, warm, and dry conditions.
“Humidity value is staying relatively low from now through the weekend. Farther to our south, our neighbors down there are going to be seeing humidity values creep up, but I don’t think we get into that more humid air until we get into early this coming week.”
Martin doesn’t see much in the way of moisture Monday through Friday next week. He can’t rule out a little bit of instability here and there, bringing about some pop-up showers.
“But we’re talking a few hundredths to a tenth- very, very minor. All activity, in my mind, is going to be to our west next week across Lake Michigan and into Wisconsin. I just don’t think we have much getting going here through the week, and that will allow for harvest to progress in a lot of areas. We’ll have good dry down with high evaporation rates.”
In Martin’s extended forecast, he’s watching a big cluster of showers and thunderstorms build late next week to our west over Minnesota, Iowa, and even back into the Northern Plains.
“Eventually that’s going to break loose. I think we see it first bringing moisture into the Western UP, probably late Saturday night into early Sunday, the 22nd. But for the rest of us, I don’t think we see big effects from this round of moisture until we get late that Sunday the 22nd through Monday the 23rd. We do expect some significant rains there. It will be enough to delay harvest a bit. But as dry as the ground is, as long as we get an inch and a half or less, it’s going to soak right in and go away very, very quickly.”
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