Tropical Cyclones are Welcome Visitors: ‘Tropical cyclones often deliver widespread drought-busting rainfall during the crucial late-summer period when field crops are maturing’
'Across the Southeastern U.S., where most fields are non-irrigated, crops such as corn, soybeans, peanuts, tobacco, and hay benefit from tropical cyclone precipitation. From east Texas along the coast to Maryland, non-irrigated crops, like those above, combine to bring in a good ten billion dollars per year'
