WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR APRIL 20, 2023
- U.S. hard red winter wheat areas will have three opportunities for rain during the next ten days
- Southwestern areas are least likely to get meaningful rain
- West Texas will continue to miss out on much of the precipitation expected in the Plains, but a few showers will be possible
- U.S. Delta and southeastern states will be wet or become that way in the next seven days
- U.S. Midwest temperatures will be cool and precipitation periodic limiting fieldwork
- Snowstorm in Canada’s eastern Prairies will wind down today, but some of the snow is expected in northern and eastern North Dakota and northern Minnesota
- New storm in the upper U.S. Midwest tonight and Friday will induce more heavy rain, significant runoff and additional flooding
- South America weather appears to be mostly good, especially if rain falls in Mato Grosso as advertised
- Southwestern Europe and North Africa will remain drier than usual
- China’s southern Rapeseed areas will continue very wet
- Southern Australia is advertised wetter next week as a frontal system moves from west to east; the moisture will be good for future wheat, barley and canola planting
- South Africa will continue dry biased
- India will remain cooler biased with limited rain in this first week of the outlook; showers may increase in the last days of April
- Mali to Burkina Faso to remain drier biased for another five to six days and then some showers are possible
- Southeast Asia rainfall will be increasing in Indonesia and Malaysia and possibly in a part of the mainland production areas