WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR MARCH 29, 2023
- No significant changes overnight
- U.S. hard red winter weather in the southwestern Plains and West Texas cotton, corn and sorghum areas will continue to experience dry or mostly dry weather over the next ten days
- U.S. Red River Basin areas of the North will experience two new storm systems over the coming week that will add more moisture to the region’s flood potential; the first is Thursday into Saturday and the second will be during mid-week next week
- Wet biased conditions continue in the Delta, lower Midwest and Tennessee River Basin during the next ten days raising concern over field working delays
- California and western parts of Oregon and Washington will experience plenty of moisture for a while
- Argentina’s weather will be favorably mixed with next week wettest
- Brazil weather will also be favorably mixed with net drying continuing for a while longer in center south crop areas favoring late season soybean harvesting
- Safrinha crops should be developing favorably
- Next week will trend wetter
- Northern India still has one more round of rain coming up for late this week in some of its wheat country maintaining concern over the quality of that crop and a few others produced nearby
- Western CIS and much of Europe will be wetter biased for a while, but spring fieldwork is only just beginning in the south
- Spain, Portugal and northern Africa remain quite dry and little change is likely for ten days, even though a few showers may evolve in Tunisia and northeastern Algeria briefly next week
- South Africa and Australia weather outlooks are similar to those of Monday
- China’s Yellow River Basin will get some welcome rain Sunday into Tuesday, although the precipitation event should weaken over the next couple of days