WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR APRIL 26, 2023
- U.S. hard red winter wheat areas began receiving rain overnight and will continue to see waves of it through Friday
- Sufficient amounts will occur to induce great improvements in crop and field conditions
- U.S. Midwest, Great Plains, Delta and southeastern states will be cooler than usual through the first few days in May and the a more normal temperature regime is expected
- Eastern Canada’s Prairies will also be cooler than usual into next week before warming begins
- Western Canada’s Prairies will experience warmer temperatures and some fieldwork will begin
- West Texas cotton areas will only get a limited amount of rain during the next ten days, although a few showers and thunderstorms will be possible at times
- The Rolling Plains of Texas, southwestern Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle will all receive needed rain
- A favorable mix of weather is expected in the Delta and southeastern states over the next ten days with a wetter and cooler bias expected in the first half of that period
- California is poised for greater precipitation once again and that along with melting snow will lead to some rising flood potentials
- Southwestern Europe and northwestern Africa will continue drier and warmer than usual for another ten days
- Northern Kazakhstan and southern parts of Russia’s eastern New Lands will be drier and warmer than usual for the next ten days
- India will experience some scattered showers and thunderstorms – some of which may be locally heavy in the interior southeast
- China will continue to experience mostly good weather, although rain is needed in a part of the northeast and drier weather is needed south of the Yangtze River