WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR JULY 30, 2023
- Excessive rain fell during the weekend in western parts of the North China Plain, southeastern Fujian and in a few areas northward from there into Anhui and Jiangsu from the remnants of Typhoon Doksuri
- Rain totals reached over 28.00 inches in southeastern Fujian and ranged from 6.00 to 15.00 inch in the western North China Plain
- Heavy rain also fell in southwestern Luzon Island Philippines where up to 17.00 inches was noted since Friday morning and that followed 10-25 inches of rain west-central and northwestern Luzon earlier last week
- Western India will trend drier this week and that may prove beneficial to summer crops in the region
- Europe will be wetter than usual this week in the north-central and northeast cutting into some late season winter crop harvest progress
- Australia’s southern crops remain favorably rated with timely rainfall supporting winter crop conditions, but more rain is needed in the north
- Argentina will remain drier than usual for another ten days keeping wheat poorly established in the west
- Brazil’s Safrinha harvest weather is expected to remain very good over the next ten days due to limited rain
- Canada’s Prairies and the northern U.S. Plains and upper Midwest will continue struggling for greater precipitation to support the best late season crop development
- Texas and southern Oklahoma as well as most of the far western U.S. will be drier biased for an extended period of time
- U.S. Delta was dry and warm to hot during the weekend will stay that way for a while this week and then some timely rain should resume
- Lower U.S. Midwest and southeastern states should experience well timed rainfall and seasonable temperatures for summer crops
- Indonesia and Malaysia rainfall will remain limited over the next ten days, although the driest conditions are likely through the first half of this week
- Western Thailand and Myanmar still need greater rainfall to ease long term dryness