(OPINION) Michael Snyder – Experts are warning us that this will be a “freezing, frigid, and frosty” winter, and even though the official beginning of winter is still over a wmonth away, it already feels like that in much of the country right now. Over the next several days, it will literally feel like it is mid-January in much of the central and eastern portions of the United States.
Many areas will be hit by temperatures that are 30 degrees below normal, and heavy snow is expected in some areas of the Midwest. Unfortunately, this bitterly cold weather is coming at a very bad time for corn farmers. According to the latest USDA crop progress report, only 52 percent of the corn in the middle of the country has been harvested.
So about half of the corn is still sitting out there, and these extraordinarily low temperatures could potentially be absolutely devastating. In essence, this cold front threatens to put an exclamation point on an absolutely horrific year for U.S. farmers.
According to the National Weather Service, we could possibly see “170 potential daily record cold high temperatures” over the next three days… “The National Weather Service is forecasting 170 potential daily record cold high temperatures Monday to Wednesday,” tweeted Weather Channel meteorologist Jonathan Erdman. “A little taste of January in November.”
The temperature nosedive will be a three-day process as cold front charges across the central and eastern U.S. from Sunday into Tuesday. We are being told that low temperatures in certain portions of Texas could plunge into the teens, and all across the Upper Midwest, we could see low temperatures that are well below zero. READ MORE
