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The harvest was halted this month by heavy rains that turned fields into a muddy mess. Hemmes said her soybeans were coated with two inches heavy, wet snow on Sunday. It's the wettest year she's experienced in 33 years of farming and Hemmes said there's some pod-splitting taking place.
According to the USDA, the 19-percent soybean harvest is the smallest mid-October harvest percentage for Iowa since records began, and the lowest number among the major soybean producing states. Hemmes said, earlier this year, she was excited about her potential soybean yield.
Six months worth of rain in a day events in dozens of locations across the planet and this is now turning into all time record monthly snow totals in the first week of a month.
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Summer snow was showing up on the Cody Bowl cam at Jackson Hole, Wyoming on August 27, 2018
Record cold Denver, record snow Missouri, winter weather advisories in Texas and Mexico in mid October, all the while corporate winter forecasts are now adjusted to record cold when last month they spouted warm winter due to global warming.
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Due to the snowfall, the residents have been facing many problems, including power breakdown.
Heavy rains have been lashing areas too.
Meteorologist Ryan Maue tweeted Monday that "record low temperatures are covering the map with a major cold front blasting through the Rockies to the Mississippi River."
Southern Colorado saw its first cold blast of the season, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). Temperatures plummeted Sunday evening and snow began to fall. Freezing weather is expected to rebound somewhat over the next couple days.
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)Snowstorm in Nepal
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Shaded is where at least light snow cover was analyzed across the United States and Canada on the morning of Oct. 15.
Meteorologist Heather Tesch looks at the snow in October.
It's covering more of North America than it has at this time in over a decade.
Early fall has already brought plenty of winter weather to parts of North America, pushing the continent to its largest snow cover extent for mid-October in more than a decade.
The area covered by snow in North America as of Sunday was 7.77 million square kilometers (3 million square miles), according to an analysis from NOAA. No other Oct. 14 has had a snow cover extent that large in records dating to 2005.
Snow Cheyenne, Wyoming
Snow continues to fall in parts of the Rocky Mountains, blanketing Colorado, western Kansas and northern New Mexico reaching up to 12 inches in some areas.
Winter weather warnings are issued in five other states, including Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana through early Monday as forecasters predict heavy snowfall.
While the east coast is experiencing its first refreshingly cool fall weather, the Plains and Rockies are in for a blast of Arctic air that are bringing record lows.
© Jenny Schlecht/AgweekSnow covers soybean plants in Stutsman County, N.D., on Oct. 10, 2018. The storm dropped more than a foot of snow in some parts of the Dakotas and Minnesota.
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Comment: In relation to the above, review also this information: North American snow cover is the most it's been in Mid-October in 13 years
Winter came early this year! Snow warnings are issued across EIGHT states as the Rockies brace for record-cold temperatures and a foot of snow