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Iowa farmer Caleb Hamer grabbed his phone and dialed a local corn buyer this week, eager to sell his grain as prices climbed to their highest level in more than a year. Farmers across the Midwest ...
On Tuesday, 17 record high temperatures were recorded across the Midwest, according to the National Weather Service. At Chicago O'Hare International Airport, experts recorded an afternoon high of ...
Before prices plunged last summer, Henebry said he sold some corn for $5.50 to $5.70 per bushel and then for as much as $6.21 per bushel delivered to the grain elevator.
Higher temperatures will yield more heat waves like the 1995 Chicago heat wave. [8] According to the National Weather Service, heat is a leading contributor to weather-related deaths. [9] Increases in temperature are especially dangerous in cities like Chicago, which experience the urban heat island effect. Future heat waves will yield similar ...
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The coldest temperature ever recorded in Chicago city limits is −27 °F (−33 °C) at O'Hare on January 20, 1985, [18] though unofficial temperatures as low as −3 °F (−19 °C) have been recorded at Chicago Aurora Airport in far western suburbs and in the rural areas to the west of Chicago. [43] On December 24, 1983, and January 18, 1994 ...
Washington, D.C., set a record for the coldest high temperature on Christmas Eve at 22 °F (−6 °C), [204] Philadelphia set a record cold high at 18 °F (−8 °C), [205] Baltimore tied its record cold high of 20 °F (−7 °C), [206] and Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, smashed their record cold high for the date reaching 4 °F (−16 °C). [207]
Minimum temperature map of the United States from 1871–1888 Maximum temperature map of the United States from 1871–1888. The following table lists the highest and lowest temperatures recorded in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the 5 inhabited U.S. territories during the past two centuries, in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. [1]