WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
- Not much change occurred overnight
- Some concern remains over dryness in Russia’s southern Region and neighboring areas of Ukraine for wheat planting
- Europe continues dry and warm, although the pattern will break next week leading to waves of light rainfall that may slow summer crop maturation and harvest progress at times
- India will continue to get rain in the central and eastern parts of the nation maintaining a good outlook for many crops
- Northwestern and far southern India will continue to dry out
- China weather should be mostly well mixed, although too much rain will continue in a part of the far south (Guangdong and southern Fujian in particular)
- Australia will continue receiving periodic rain in the far south supporting wheat, barley and canola while northern winter crop areas remain dry and very warm at times
- Western wheat and canola areas of South Africa are getting timely rain
- Argentina’s western wheat areas will receive a minimal amount of rain for an extended period of time
- Rio Grande do Sul, Uruguay, southern Paraguay, Santa Catarina and southern Parana, Brazil will receive rain frequently for another week resulting in ongoing concern about too much moisture
- Safrinha corn and cotton harvesting will continue to slowly wind down in Brazil with mostly good weather prevailing
- Rain will be needed in coffee areas of Brazil again later this month to induce more flowering and support pollination
- U.S. western and some central corn and soybean areas will be dry over the next week to ten days
- U.S. hard red winter wheat areas will get welcome rain late this weekend through early next week that will support better planting, emergence and establishment conditions
- Canada and the far northern U.S. Plains will receive a limited amount of rain favoring crop maturation and harvest progress
- Hurricane Lee will pack wind speeds between 165 and 180 mph today. The storm is still far from land, but may become a threat to the upper east coast of North America a week from now
- Tropical Storm Margot in the Atlantic Ocean will become a hurricane late this weekend or early next week, but it will move to the central Atlantic Ocean and pose no threat to land
- Southeast Asia will receive periodic rain, although southern Indonesia will be dry biased