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["Joe Hecksel" <jhecksel@voyager.net>]

Part of the fun of growing stuff is complaining about the weather.

The URL of a graphic representation of the Crop Moisture Index 
(moisture status of the top 5' (1.7m) of soil)
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/regional_monit
oring/cmi.gif

The URL of a graphic representation of the Palmer Drought Index
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/regional_monit
oring/addpcp.gif

Most of the US cornbelt is 6" (150mm) shy of precipitation.

-- 
Joe Hecksel
Personal Webpage http://my.voyager.net/~jhecksel