As the calendar flips to April this week, farmers are focused on spring weather forecasts. U.S. Farm Report meteorologist Mike Hoffman expects mild temperatures for much of the country, but the moisture situation may be more of a mixed bag in 2021.
“The April temperature forecast calls for above normal for much of the country, except parts of the Southeast and a below normal area in the Northwest,” says Hoffman.
Hoffman says the weather models point to the “above normal” area spreading out in May and June, with above normal temperatures expected for much of the country.
“I’m going on to May and it’s going to be above normal area there in the Southwest, including eastern Colorado, as well as much of the country, and then that continues as we head through June. Much of the country looking pretty warm for the early part of the summer.”
As for precipitation, Hoffman expect moisture this spring to to produce rains in the Eastern Corn Belt, but he thinks moisture will be more sporadic for the West.
“Below average precipitation much of the West down into the southern Mississippi,” says Hoffman. Then, the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley and Northeast will probably above normal [precipitation] over the next 90 days.”
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