WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY 7, 2023
- Most U.S. crop areas will get rain at one time or another during the coming week; this includes West Texas, many hard red winter wheat areas (although light in the west-central high Plains), the northern Plains and southeastern Canada Prairies all of which have been drier biased in recent weeks
- Rain is advertised in northeastern Algeria and northern Tunisia this week
- Moderate to heavy rain will occur from Italy and the western Balkan Countries to France and the U.S. in the next week to ten days
- Spain will remain drier biased except for showers along the central east coast
- A part of northern Kazakhstan and neighboring areas of Russia will get rain this week easing some recent dryness, although more will be needed in parts of the region
- China experienced flooding rain in southern rapeseed and rice production areas causing some damage to crops in northwestern Fujian and Jiangxi
- Yunnan, China’s drought may be eased late this week and into the weekend as needed rain falls
- Xinjiang China’s cotton and corn areas were unseasonably cold during the weekend and some warming is expected this week
- Argentina’s rainfall in the central and northwest during the weekend was welcome and drying will now return
- Brazil’s Safrinha corn areas continue to dry down
- Australia’s rainfall will be greatest near the coasts this week
- U.S. southern Plains will remain warm this week until rain begins
- Warm weather will overspread the Midwest later this week as well