WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY 14, 2023
- Rain has been removed from the West Texas outlook for this week as the European model which was so insistent that rain was going to fall heavily in this coming week backed off the outlook. The GFS model also backed out of some of its rain predicted
- Weekend precipitation was heavy in southwestern Minnesota, northern Iowa, northern Nebraska, central Oklahoma and central and southern Texas; many areas that had been a little too dry got relief
- Kansas was left dry during the weekend, but should get rain this week
- Canada’s Prairies in western Saskatchewan and east-central Alberta will remain in a drought for the next ten days with little to no rain and warm temperatures prevailing
- Other areas in the Prairies will also dry down, but soil moisture is better in those areas
- All U.S. crop areas will get rain at one time or another in the next ten days supporting early season crop development and yet enough dry weather will support planting at times
- Argentina wheat areas will get rain periodically starting in the second half of this week and continuing through next week
- Brazil’s center west and center south crop areas will be dry biased for the next ten days which is normal for this time of year
- South-central Europe will continue to receive too much rain too often during the next week to ten days
- Australia wheat, barley and canola areas will be left drier than usual in the next ten days
- Tropical Cyclone Mocha moved into northwestern Myanmar Sunday morning producing 122 mph wind speeds, torrential rain and flooding