WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR MARCH 21, 2023
- Argentina’s rain event coming up over the next several days will provide some much needed relief from months of drought, although more moisture will be needed to end the drought
- The moisture should end the steady decline in crop conditions
- Brazil’s crop areas from southern Mato Grosso do Sul and Parana to Minas Gerais will continue to experience improving weather with an opportunity for more aggressive field progress to take place in late soybean harvesting and Safrinha corn planting
- U.S. Southwestern Plains will continue drier than usual over the next ten days; this includes west Texas cotton areas the southwestern hard red winter wheat production regions
- A succession of storm systems will continue to produce rain and mountain snow in California and in the Rocky Mountain region to the northern Plains and upper Midwest during the next ten days
- Flood potentials remain high for Red River Basin of the North and are increasing for the upper Mississippi River Valley, although the Mississippi River should handle the runoff from the spring snow melt much better than the Red River
- Canada’s Prairies will continue missing significant precipitation for a while
- North Africa will remain too dry for the next ten days
- Snow melt in Russia will be accompanied by rain and snow this weekend into next week complicating the runoff situation
- India’s rainfall will be much less frequent and less significant in the coming week than that of the weekend, but it will still be wetter than desired and some crop conditions will deteriorate
- No changes were noted for China, Australia or South Africa in the overnight forecasts