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WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR FEBRUARY 12, 2024
- Southern Brazil is drying out, but timely rain is expected during mid-week this week that will reverse the trend and return very good crop development potential
- Argentina rainfall today and Tuesday will be sufficient to fill the gaps in the weekend precipitation and further improve topsoil conditions for aggressive summer crop development
- Australia will experience some net drying for a while, although central Queensland and northeastern New South Wales will get some rain late this week and into early next week
- Western summer crop areas in South Africa will dry down too
- China’s moisture profile and winter crops will remain in good shape
- India still needs greater rain in winter coarse grain and oilseed areas, although no excessive heat is expected, although readings will slowly trend warmer this week and next week
- Southwestern Europe will trend drier and warmer than usual once again after some welcome rain late last week and during the weekend
- Northwest Africa will be trending drier than usual once again over the next ten days after getting temporary relief late last week and early in the weekend
- Middle East precipitation is increasing to the benefit of winter wheat and future cotton planting
- Western CIS winter crop areas will continue in a wet weather pattern with well above normal snowpack and saturated soil beneath it keeping spring flood potentials running high
- Bitter cold is not threatening winter crops due to substantial snow cover in the coldest areas
- S. weather will favor precipitation in the Delta, southeastern states and lower eastern Midwest early this week and again late next week
- West Texas to central Oklahoma received significant snow and rain overnight with moisture totals to 0.77 inch and snowfall of 1 to 8 inches with Plainview, Texas getting 14 inches
- South Texas and a broad band from southwest to northeast Mexico will get rain Wednesday into Saturday to improve topsoil moisture
- Southern parts of coastal bend will also be impacted with rain while the Blacklands and upper Texas coast see less rain along with the Delta after today.
- Canada’s Prairies and northern U.S. Plains will receive restricted precipitation for a while and temperatures will be cooler biased
- Some snow will impact the far southwestern Prairies and from Montana to Minnesota and northern Iowa to the Great Lakes region
- California will get more rain and mountain snow this weekend and into next week
- Southern Oscillation Index remains in a nose dive and is expected to continue becoming more negative this week, but it is being impacted by tropical cyclone activity in northern Australia
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