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Extremely hot summer days in US, drought biggest since 1956

Extremely hot summer days in US, drought biggest since 1956
Extremely hot summer days in US, drought biggest since 1956

This is a natural disaster of epic proportions. Drought devastating US is worst since 1956 as more than half the country withers in unrelenting heat.

Over 55% of the United States is suffering through moderate to extreme drought, the likes unseen since 1956.

Around the world, long dry spells significantly increase the likelihood that there will be an above-average number of extremely hot summer days, according to a study published this month issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The result could help predict extreme heat more than a month into the future.

From Chicago to St. Louis to Omaha, Nebraska, temperatures eclipsed 100 degrees Fahrenheit and the National Weather Service issued heat advisories across Midwest and mid-Atlantic states.

Epic drought covers widest area since 1956

According to the US climat center, the hot and dry weather in June, which ranked as the third-driest month nationally in at least 118 years, made the problem worse. The portion of the country suffering from severe to extreme short-term drought dramatically expanded last month, up to nearly 33 percent from 23% the month before.

The researchers looked at measures of precipitation around the world and correlated them with the number of extremely hot days in each location. Hot days were defined as those whose daily high temperatures were in the top ten percent of all days during the past 32 years. Throughout much of the world, if an area receives less rain than usual from April to June, there’s a 70 percent chance that there will be more extremely hot days than usual in July.

Grain prices pared gains after the new forecasts, with November soybeans turning lower after marking a session record high of over 16 dollars per bushel.

The drought gripping the United States is the widest since 1956 / its worst drought in more than 55 years

The National Drought Mitigation Center in Arkansas reported that ranchers are having to haul water for cattle because ponds have dried out and wells can’t keep up with demands.

The weather gas been stressing soy and corn crops from Indiana to Arkansas, driving up grocery prices and hurting the once booming agriculture industry. Corn prices, which came within a whisker of their nearly 8 dollars all-time peak, was marginally higher.

The hot, dry weather in US would remain the norm for the next two weeks in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, the Dakotas and southern Wisconsin.

More than 55 per cent of the contiguous United States is in a drought, just as corn plants should be pollinating, a period when adequate moisture is crucial. The United States ships more than half of all world exports of corn, which is made into dozens of products, from starch and ethanol to livestock feed.

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