WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR OCTOBER 23, 2023
- Excessive heat and dryness continued from northern Argentina to center west Brazil during the weekend with extreme highs of 100 to 111 Fahrenheit
- Rain fell in many areas in Argentina during the weekend and the precipitation was helpful for wheat development in the south and for future summer crop planting
- Brazil’s interior southern crop areas and Paraguay will see heavy rain late this week
- Scattered showers and thunderstorms will develop in center west Brazil later this week and into next week easing excessive heat and dryness
- Concern about center west Brazil’s earlier planted summer crops remains because of excessive heat and limited rain and dry soil; some replanting will be necessary
- Beneficial moisture fell from northern Ukraine and Belarus into northern parts of Russia’s Southern Region and northwestern Kazakhstan during the weekend
- Western Europe will be trending wetter this week
- North Africa will get some beneficial rainfall this week
- Australia’s major crop areas will continue quite dry during the next ten days
- There is potential for frost and freezes in Victoria and far southern New South Wales, Australia later this week resulting in some potential for crop damage
- Snow will fall in southern Canada’s Prairies and the northern U.S. Plains with some snow also possible in northern and eastern parts of the U.S. Pacific Northwest k
- Bitter cold will follow this week’s snow event into the northern U.S. Plains, Pacific Northwest and Canada’s Prairies
- U.S. hard red winter wheat areas will get significant rain this week especially from north-central Texas through central Oklahoma to eastern wheat areas of Kansas
- Southern Indonesia has been reporting scattered thunderstorms recently and that will continue for a while bringing some drought relief
- Tropical Cyclones are threatening Yemen, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Mexico and Bermuda