Climate expert sees La Nina conditions through 2022, early 2023

An ag meteorologist says La Nina weather conditions will likely persist through the rest of the year and even into 2023.

Eric Snodgrass with Nutrien Ag Solutions tells Brownfield areas of the Central and Western Corn Belt will stay hot and dry through August. “It’s just a matter of when it breaks down, do we get the necessary moisture in place to take advantage of that to get some rain?” he says. “In between, it gets pretty hot and flash drought conditions, I mean we see evaporation rates above three inches per week when you get these temperatures this hot throughout the Central Plains.”

He says areas of the Eastern Corn Belt could stay wetter and cooler than normal through the summer.

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