Dry conditions will again cover the entire central U.S. Thursday. This continues the more-favorable harvest weather situation that we have seen this week. The drier trend will also allow for some in-field crop drying.

Highs: 40s/50s Canadian Prairie, northern Plans, northern and eastern Midwest; 60s western, central and eastern Plains, remainder of the Midwest, Delta; 70s southwestern and southern Plains, Texas, Deep South.

Over the next week to ten days, the U.S. and Euro forecast models are acting a little more in synch today. Both models show a split trough pattern in the western U.S., with a few fast-moving and fairly weak systems moving across the Corn Belt. These should not be much of a problem in terms of rainfall.

Heaviest rain chances are in the Delta, because of the storm system action next week, but also a possible impact from Tropical Storm Ida--'way south off Central America in the western Caribbean Sea, but projected to track north into the Gulf of Mexico during the next 5 days. Ida could throw some moisture north into the Delta and help produce some heavy 2+ inch rains--which would not not be good considering the very-wet conditions there already.

Bryce