WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR MARCH 3, 2023
- U.S. temperatures will be colder in the Great Plains, Midwest and some eastern states during the second week of the outlook, but readings will be most anomalous in the Plains
- Canada’s southwestern Prairies will continue to be drier biased away from the Rocky Mountains for a while, but there is plenty of time for improved soil moisture during late March and April
- India’s weather is advertised a little wetter for the second week of the forecast today relative to that of Thursday, but the moisture will not likely have a huge impact on production, although it will help to hold back the temperatures which is a huge benefit to crops already suffering from recent warmer and drier biased conditions
- Eastern Australia is still drier biased in the first ten days of the outlook, but there is some suggestion of possibly a little more rain after March 12, but confidence is not high
- South Africa weather will be favorably mixed with periods of sun and rain during the next two weeks
- Europe is wetter in the second week of the forecast today relative to that of Thursday
- Argentina is still going to struggle for moisture in the east-central and southeast part of the nation, but there a couple of opportunities for rain in the southwest early next week and again late next week
- Brazil weather will slowly improve, but Parana, Sao Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul need a few days of complete dryness to get fields to firm up enough for more aggressive fieldwork and that may be hard to come by for a while
- Daily rainfall in the wettest areas will continue, but its intensity will slowly decrease which will be helpful
- The best drying conditions will occur next week and there will be some eventual acceleration in harvest progress
- U.S. hard red winter wheat areas will have another opportunity for snow and rain in the second half of next week
- Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado will benefit most of the moisture as will central Oklahoma, but the southwestern Plains may not get much moisture