WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR JULY 11, 2023
- Very few changes noted overnight
- Excessive heat and dryness occurred in northern Kazakhstan and southeastern Russia’s New Lands Monday and will linger for a few more days before showers and cooling begin late this week into next week
- Europe will continue very warm to hot with limited rainfall south of the North and Baltic Sea regions for another week to ten days
- North Africa will continue excessively hot for another week
- Central parts of Canada’s Prairies will continue drier than usual for the next ten days
- Some welcome rain fell in southern Alberta, Canada overnight and more is expected in this coming week to ease long term dryness
- Northwestern U.S. Corn and Soybean Production areas will experience erratic rain and mild to cool temperatures for the next ten days and then warming is expected
- Lower U.S. Midwest, the central U.S. Plains, northern Delta and southeastern states will experience the most frequent and significant rain in the next ten days
- Much of Texas will continue very warm to hot and dry for the next ten days
- Far western U.S. states will be warm to hot dry over the next ten days
- Rain began falling in parts of Argentina’s drier wheat areas Monday and overnight and more is expected this week which should improve wheat establishment and planting conditions
- Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil will be too wet in the next ten days to two weeks with multiple inches of additional rain likely
- Safrinha cotton and corn harvesting in Brazil’s center west crop areas will advance well while a few showers will induce some delay in the southern corn areas
- India rainfall will be sufficient to support most crops in the next ten days, but greater rain is needed in the south
- Xinjiang, China and central and western parts of Inner Mongolia will be dry and very warm to hot for a while stressing some crops
- Other areas in China should experience a good mix of weather for the next ten days
- Australia rain will continue mostly in southern most crop areas and it will occur erratically over the next two weeks