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Blackland Prairie cropland, TX · 31.0550°, -97.3489°

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Please use with care. The historical weather on this site comes from gridded, interpolated datasets — estimates built from weather stations, radar and satellites spread across a grid — not from a measurement taken in your field. They can differ from what actually fell or was felt at your location, especially rainfall from individual storms. Normals are calculated from 1996–2025 at a single grid point and are not the official NOAA 1991–2020 station normals. Similar years compare past seasons with this one; they are not a forecast. Use these figures alongside your own observations, and not as the only basis for irrigation, planting or other management decisions.

Pulkit JunejaPhD Student (Agronomy)Texas A&M University
Dr. Gurjinder S. BaathAssistant Professor (Digital Agriculture)Texas A&M AgriLife, Temple
Dr. Joseph A. BurkeAssistant Professor (Cropping Systems)Texas A&M AgriLife, Lubbock

Feedback or questions? Email pulkit.juneja@tamu.edu

Historical weather (gridMET). Abatzoglou, J. T. (2013). Development of gridded surface meteorological data for ecological applications and modelling. International Journal of Climatology, 33(1), 121–131. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.3413
Historical weather (NASA POWER). These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program. https://power.larc.nasa.gov/
Most recent days. Nearest airport (ASOS) weather station, via the Iowa Environmental Mesonet, Iowa State University. https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/
Crop water use (OpenET). Melton, F. S., et al. (2022). OpenET: Filling a critical data gap in water management for the western United States. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 58(6), 971–994. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12956 Accessed through Google Earth Engine: Gorelick, N., Hancher, M., Dixon, M., Ilyushchenko, S., Thau, D., & Moore, R. (2017). Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone. Remote Sensing of Environment, 202, 18–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.06.031
Forecast, days 1–7. NOAA National Weather Service API. https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api
Forecast, days 8–16. Zippenfenig, P. (2024). Open-Meteo.com Weather API [Computer software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7970649
Outlook, weeks 2–4. NOAA Climate Prediction Center. https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/
County crop yields. USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, Quick Stats. https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/
Maps and places. Map tiles and place search © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Nominatim. County boundaries from the U.S. Census Bureau (TIGERweb).

This work was supported by the Strengthening Agricultural Systems program grant no. 2021-68012-35897 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Additional support was provided by Conservation Innovation Grant no. NR243A750011G011 from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed on this website are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.