WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY 25, 2023
- Rain will bring dryness relief to Saskatchewan and northwestern Manitoba, Canada over the next several days
- Alberta, Canada’s drought areas “may” get some needed rain in early June, although the GFS model run this morning has suggested significant rain may occur there this weekend and early next week – confidence in the GFS outlook is a little low
- U.S. Midwest weather will continue drier than usual for another week and then scattered showers and thunderstorms are likely, though resulting rainfall may continue lighter than usual
- West Texas received some welcome rain overnight and more is expected today and again Saturday night with a few other sporadic showers expected during the balance of the next two weeks
- Planting moisture is improving, but subsoil moisture will continue low leaving concern about the long term outlook for dryland crops
- U.S. hard red winter wheat areas will get periodic showers and thunderstorms over the next week to ten days with a little worry over crop quality in some of the wetter areas
- Northern Europe will be notably drier biased over the next ten days while the south continues to get waves of rain
- Russia’s eastern New Lands are advertised to get some rain in early June after a dry finish to May
- Northern India will trend wetter than usual this weekend into early next week disrupting some fieldwork, but perhaps benefiting early cotton development
- China weather will continue well mixed for all crops
- Southern Australia rainfall will be timely in the next week to ten days, despite lighter than usual
- Early monsoon rainfall will be abundant in Kerala, India and along the coast of Myanmar during the next couple of weeks
- Interior Thailand crop area will get needed rain, but may continue to see lighter than usual rain amounts for a while
- Indonesia and Malaysia rainfall will be in decline next week and on into the first half of June