WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR FEBRUARY 15, 2023
- Not much changed in the world overnight
- Southern Argentina will be dry or mostly dry through the end of this month
- Brazil will continue too wet for the next two weeks in Parana, Sao Paulo, southern Minas Gerais and a part of Mato Grosso do Sul
- Mato Grosso will see good harvest and planting weather at times the remainder of this week, but rain will increase this weekend and next week slowing field progress once again
- U.S. hard red winter wheat areas will get some snow today with 3 to 7 inches of accumulation expected and locally more; including eastern Colorado, much of western and central Kansas and southern Nebraska
- No drought busting moisture is likely, but the moisture from melting snow will help improve winter crops later this season
- Plenty of moisture is expected to fall across the U.S. Midwest, Delta and southeastern States over the next two weeks maintaining abundant soil moisture
- Europe continues unusually dry raising worry over long term soil moisture ahead of spring crop development
- North Africa rain will be greatest in southwestern Morocco, but there are no crops there that will benefit from the moisture
- India will stay dry biased over the next two weeks
- Eastern China will see brief periods of rain and snow over the next two weeks, although most of the precipitation will be light
- Waves of snow will accumulate significantly from eastern Belarus and the Baltic States to a part of Russia’s Southern Region during the next two weeks
- Eastern Australia still needs significant rain to fall in unirrigated areas of Queensland and New South Wales
- Eastern South Africa will be wet in the next ten days while the west remains in need of greater rain