• Tornado Watch - Click for Details
    ...A Tornado Watch has been issued...
    Expires: April 28, 2024 @ 12:00am
    LOCATIONS
    Eastern Iowa, Northwest Illinois, Northeast Missouri, Southwest Wisconsin
    EFFECTIVE
    This Saturday afternoon from 555 PM until Midnight CDT.
    THREATS
    A couple tornadoes possible, Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely, Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2 inches in diameter possible
    SITUATION
    Thunderstorms will gradually develop this evening and spread into the Watch area. Large hail, damaging gusts, and a few tornadoes are possible with the stronger supercells and embedded thunderstorm clusters. The tornado watch area is approximately along and 75 statute miles north and south of a line from 65 miles west of Burlington IA to 55 miles east southeast of Dubuque IA. For a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU0).
    PRECAUTIONS
    A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch area. Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for threatening weather conditions and listen for later statements and possible warnings.

USDA: corn acres down, soybeans up in 2024

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The USDA expects farmers to plant fewer acres of corn and more acres of soybeans in 2024.

Corn planted area is projected at 90.036 million acres, at the low end of pre-report guesses and 5% less than 2023, with acreage steady to lower in 38 of the 48 states used in the estimation.

That includes potentially the lowest expected planted area in Iowa since 2006 and the highest for Minnesota since 1958.

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