date:Oct 23, 2012
ns the door to hopes that a period of more plentiful moisture could chip away at the shortfall that's gutted many farmers' crops this year.
It is possible that the recent flow of moist air into the Midwest may be a response to a change in the trend toward diminished incursion of moist air that initiated in mid-March, says Iowa State University Extension ag meteorologist and weather expert Elwynn Taylor. The precipitation events since late September give some reason to anticipate a 'more normal'