![]() On top of the expected yield losses, grain buyers worry about quality. A year ago, just 2% of the state's winter wheat and 6% of its spring wheat were rated poor to very poor. Agriculture Department this week rated 68% of the state's spring wheat and 36% of its winter wheat in poor or very poor condition. "The Washington wheat crop is in pretty rough shape right now," said Clark Neely, a Washington State University agronomist. exports of white wheat in the marketing year that ended May 31 reached a 40-year high of 265 million bushels, driven by unprecedented demand from China.īut farmers may not have as much to sell this year. ![]() You see your blood, sweat and tears just slowly wither away and die." "Something about a drought like this just wears on you. "The general mood among farmers in my area is as dire as I've ever seen it," Kress said. variety is especially prized by Asian buyers. Other countries including Australia and Canada grow white wheat, but the U.S. The Pacific Northwest is the only part of the United States that grows soft white wheat used to make sponge cakes and noodles, and farmers were hoping to capitalize on high grain prices. is also seeing the heat ratchet up, with "feels-like" temperatures pushing 100 degrees by Monday and Tuesday in the major cities of the I-95 corridor.Cordell Kress, who farms in southeastern Idaho, expects his winter white wheat to produce about half as many bushels per acre as it does in a normal year when he begins to harvest next week, and he has already destroyed some of his withered canola and safflower oilseed crops. Intermountain West, Desert Southwest and California with hundreds of record highs. CBS News This heat wave comes on the heels of another historic heat wave less than two weeks ago that baked the U.S. The core of the heat dome, as measured by the thickness of the air column over British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest, is - statistically speaking - equivalent to a 1-in-1,000-year event or even a 1-in-10,000-year event. CBS News The heat is being caused by a combination of a significant atmospheric blocking pattern on top of a human-caused climate changed world where baseline temperatures are already a couple to a few degrees higher than nature intended. ![]() Portland has already broken its former all-time record of 107. These are all-time heat records for select cities prior to the current heat wave. By Monday, some - if not all - of the all-time record highs seen below are forecast to break, with many more cities not listed here expected to achieve the same feat. These are extremely dangerous numbers, especially in a region not used to heat like this, where many people do not have air conditioning. Canada is expected to register the nation's all-time highest temperature before the event is done. ![]() Portland, Oregon, has already broken its all-time record hottest temperature at 108 degrees on Saturday and the peak of the heat wave has not even been reached yet. By one measure it is more rare than a once in a 1,000 year event - which means that if you could live in this particular spot for 1,000 years, you'd likely only experience a heat dome like this once, if ever. Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, Canada, is of an intensity never recorded by modern humans.
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