News Warm Temperatures Good for Harvest Posted 04 November 2008 Temperatures yesterday, Monday, Nov. 3, tied a 30-year-old record in Dubuque as the mercury reached and unseasonable warm 73 degrees. Warm temperatures were recorded throughout Northeast Iowa and the region.   The normal temperature for this week is around 50 degrees. Forecasters expect the warm weather — with highs in the 70s — to continue through Wednesday of this week. A change will be in the air Thursday, with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Precipitation chances remain good through the weekend and forecasters expect high temperatures to dip into the upper 30s by Sunday, Nov. 9.   The warm weather is benefiting local crops and facilitating this year's harvest, according to Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey.   Northey says the warm sun and dry breeze in Iowa over the last week have helped dry out fields and allowed farmers to start getting back to harvest activities. The secretary says much of northern Iowa is in pretty good shape with almost all of the beans and half the corn harvested to date. Northey says southern Iowa still has a significant amount of beans and more than three-quarters of the corn to get out of the field, but that if the weather holds up that will help.

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