WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR JUNE 26, 2023
- Not much changed overnight
- Europe and the western CIS will be trending wetter this week
- China will receive rain in most of the nation east of Tibet with areas north of the Yellow River staying driest
- Eastern Australia’s best rain opportunity will be late in the weekend and early next week, but some rain will impact interior South Australia and western and some central New South Wales locations later today into Wednesday
- Southeast Asia rainfall will be more active this week improving topsoil moisture for many areas from the mainland areas into Indonesia
- India’s rainfall will be improving additionally this week with some heavy rain likely in central parts of the nation
- Substantial rain fell in portions of the Dakotas into northern Minnesota during the weekend while lighter rain fell to the east from southern South Dakota and northern Nebraska into northern Iowa and northern Illinois
- The moisture was welcome and eased dryness, but a big part of the Midwest dryness was not relieved and dryness expanded to the southwest because of warm to hot temperatures and no rain
- Not much additional relief is expected in the U.S. Midwest until late this week and in the weekend when the next bout of scattered showers and thunderstorms evolve
- Cooling will accompany the weekend rain and follow up showers are expected next week
- The U.S. Gulf of Mexico opens as a moisture source during the weekend and a more normal pattern occurs next week as the Bermuda high finally gets in its normal position
- Mild temperatures will impact the Midwest early this week and then the southwestern Corn Belt (Illinois to Missouri and Kansas will get hot again Wednesday through Friday
- Texas will be hot and dry most of this week, but will cool down during the late weekend and early next week
- Canada’s Prairies will remain drier biased for the next ten days, despite some showers
- Western Argentina wheat areas will stay drier biased