WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR OCTOBER 16, 2023
- Western Australia will be dry for one more week; there is some potential for rain in the October 24-30 period
- Queensland and northern New South Wales as well as South Australia will be dry for ten days
- Northern India and parts of Pakistan rainfall early this week will be ideal for autumn planting and emergence, although some unharvested cotton may experience a little fiber discoloring because of the rain
- Andhra Pradesh, India will continue too dry while other areas in southern India get some rain this week
- Western Europe will turn notably wetter beginning Thursday of this week and continuing through all of next week
- Europe’s middle and lower Danube River Basin will receive limited rainfall over the next ten days keeping some winter crop areas dry while supporting aggressive fieldwork; including the harvest of summer crops and the planting of winter grain
- Portions of Russia’s Southern Region and Ukraine will trend wetter over the next ten days improving winter crop establishment as long as soil temperatures remain warm; some cooling is expected over the coming week to ten days
- China weather will remain favorably mixed for summer crop harvesting and winter crop planting
- Excessive rain and serious flooding occurred in central Vietnam during the weekend with Dan Nang reporting over 33.00 inches of rain since Friday and Hue reported nearly 20.00 inches
- Additional heavy rain is expected in central Vietnam this week causing more flooding or at least prolonging those conditions
- Brazil’s center west crop areas will continue to receive below normal rainfall and an erratic distribution of rain for at least another ten days
- Southern Brazil and southern Paraguay as well as a part of northeastern Argentina will get too much rain in the next ten days resulting in some flooding
- Central Argentina may receive some needed rain late this weekend into next week
- Southern Argentina could receive some needed rain next week as well
- U.S. weather will be mixed over the next ten days possibly slowing some summer crop harvest progress
- Rain is needed in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and hard red winter wheat production areas
- Canada’s Prairies will be trending cooler and wetter next week, but this week will be warm
- Ontario and Quebec summer harvest progress will remain slow due to waves of precipitation