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Weather is one of the top most influential features in daily commodity futures trading. It is also the most important consideration for food company's making purchasing commitments and farmers to determine hedge positions and planting decisions. World Weather, Inc. has 73 years of combined agricultural world weather forecasting experience and its staff has been supporting the commodity futures trade since 1979. This daily podcast will provide insight to the day's most important weather issues influencing world market trading. It is designed to discuss all of the most important weather-related issues of the day and will help explain how those weather issues will influence production and help the listener make better business decisions whether in the commodity futures market or out of it.
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4 hours ago
4 hours ago
- No blocking ridge of high pressure over North America
- waves for rain will continue from Canada's Prairies through the northern Plains into the Midwest during the next ten days
- Net drying is expected in the interior southern Plains and from there into the Delta and a part of the Tennessee River Basin
- Very little change in France, the Balkan Countries, Russia, Ukraine or China
- Australia was a little wetter in the northeast of New South Wales and southeastern Queensland
- Argentina gets more rain during mid-week next week, but it is likely overdone
- A reduction in Rio Grande do Sul rainfall was noted at mid-day by the GFS model run and that change was needed

7 hours ago
7 hours ago
HIGHLIGHTS IN THIS VIDEO
- Tropical Disturbance moving across Florida today will have potential to become a tropical depression in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico (America)
- Some heavy rain will fall along the central and northeast Gulf of Mexico
- U.S. Weather will become more active later this week into next week with frequent storms in the northern Plains and Midwest
- High pressure building up in the southern U.S. should diminish rain across the interior southern Plains, central Delta and southern part sof the Tennessee River Basin
- Ridge Building in late July over Rocky Mountains and high Plains may bring rain to dry areas in northeastern Canada Prairies
- Not much relief expected in France, although some rain is expected
- Drought in lower Danube River Basin will prevail as well
- Eastern Ukraine to Russia's Southern Region will remain dry for winter crop harvest
- East-central China dryness to last another week before some relief is possible
- Telangana and Andhra Pradesh dryness should abate later this week, but other areas in interior western India will continue to dry out
- No changes in South America

10 hours ago
10 hours ago
WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR JULY 15, 2025
- Less than usual rainfall continues in portions of Sumatra and peninsular Malaysia raising some concern about long term crop development
- Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands are also drying down, but for them that is a little more normal for this time of year
- Western and some central Thailand crop areas have been drier than usual in recent weeks, but rain is expected to develop later this week into next week
- A tropical depression may develop in the next couple of days in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico (America) resulting in abundant rain and some strong thunderstorms from northwestern Florida to the Louisiana coast late this week into the weekend
- Tropical Storm 08W will impact eastern Honshu and Hokkaido, Japan today and Wednesday producing some occasional rain and breezy conditions; the impact on agriculture and personal property should be low
- Portions of France may get some needed rain late this week into the weekend, although much more will be needed
- Drought and dryness in southeastern Europe will continue without much relief for a while
- Eastern Ukraine, Russia’s Southern Region and western Kazakhstan will experience good harvest weather for winter crops
- China’s recent drying in east-central areas may continue for at least another week, despite a few random showers
- Other crop areas in China are in good shape and expected to remain that way
- India’s Telangana and Andhra Pradesh crop areas will get some rain later this week into next week easing recent dryness
- Other areas in southern and west-central India will continue drier than usual; including interior western and southern Maharashtra
- Argentina will get some rain in wheat areas today and Wednesday and then trend drier again; more rain will be needed in the west
- Safrinha crops in Brazil will experience dry and warm biased weather for the next two weeks resulting in good maturation and harvest conditions
- S Midwest, Northern Plains, Delta and southeastern states should see a favorable mix of weather over the next ten days
- Dry and warm weather will prevail in the U.S. Pacific Northwest
- Net drying and warmer biased weather is expected in the southern U.S. Plains and a part of both the central Delta and southern Tennessee River Basin over the next ten days raising the need for rain late this month and in early August
- Canada’s Southwestern Prairies benefited from rain Monday and northeastern areas may get some needed rain late this weekend into early next week
- Australia weather remains unchanged with greater rain needed in interior crop areas while those near the southern coast are well established

2 days ago
2 days ago
- Not much change was noted on the mid-day model runs today
- A little more rain was suggested for central France on the GFS model run, but not the ECMWF, although the latter was already wetter than the GFS

2 days ago
2 days ago
HIGHLIGHTS IN THIS VIDEO
- More ridge building is likely in the next couple of weeks across the southern Plains, Delta and interior southeastern states suggesting a drier bias for those areas in time
- Rain will continue fall abundantly in the heart of the Midwest
- Timely rain occurs in Canada's Prairies and the Northern U.S. Plains, although some of the rain may be overdone
- No excessive heat is expected in North America over the next two weeks
- Canada's Prairies still have pockets of notable dryness that must be relieved
- West Texas is drier for the next two weeks than advertised Friday
- Northern France, the U.K., Low Countries and northwestern Germany will get rain this weekend and especially next week while southern France and the lower Danube River Basin remain dry biased
- Very warm to hot weather occurred from eastern Ukraine into Kazakhstan during the weekend accelerating crop stress in the driest areas
- East-central China will dry out for a while
- Tropical Activity in the far western Pacific Ocean may send a succession of tropical systems through China, Japan and the Korean peninsula in the next few weeks
- Not much change in Australia, Brazil or Argentina
- Rain is expected in southern India this weekend into next week

2 days ago
2 days ago
WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR MONDAY, JULY 14, 2025
- U.S. weather will remain favorable for rain east of the Rocky Mountains, although some net drying is expected in a part of the central and interior southern Plains, portions of the Delta and parts of the Tennessee River Basin
- these drier tendencies will evolve slowly, but will eventually become notable
- No extreme heat is expected in North America during the next two weeks
- Far western U.S. weather will remain dry biased; including the Pacific Northwest
- Rain is expected in southwestern Canada's Prairies early this week and other areas may get some rain during the weekend and next week
- France and the Lower Danube River Basin will remain too dry this week, although northern France will get some rain late this week and during the weekend
- Temperatures in Europe will be closer to normal this week instead of being above normal as suggested last Friday
- Mostly good weather will prevail in China, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Brazil and Argentina
- Some rain is expected in Argentina wheat areas during mid-week this week
- Southern India will start to receive some rain this weekend and continue into next week; however, Maharashtra and parts of Tamil Nadu will remain dry
- Other areas in India will be plenty wet
- Australia weather will continue fair, but grater rain is needed in Queensland, northern New South Wales, interior South Australia and eastern parts of Western Australia

2 days ago
2 days ago
CHANGES SINCE FRIDAY
- Europe will not be as anomalously warm this week as advertised Friday
- ECMWF model suggests France will be dry this workweek and then get some timely rain
- GFS model suggests a full week to 8 or 9 days of dry weather will occur before there is much chance for rain
- Drying east-central China will last most of this week, but may get some relief this weekend into next week
- A part of the interior southern U.S. Plains, central Delta, southern Tennessee River Basin and interior southeastern states are advertised for net drying conditions over the next couple of weeks, despite some scattered showers and thunderstorms and seasonably warm temperatures
- The dry down will be a slow process
- Tropical Storm Nari formed during the weekend south of Japan and will brush eastern Honshu and eastern Hokkaido during mid-week this week with little damage
- Subtropical Depression 07W formed over the East China Sea during the weekend and was moving across western Japan today
- The system will dissipate over western Honshu with little more than some moderate to heavy rain and breezy conditions
- Central Thailand and northern Sumatra, Indonesia will dry out a little more this workweek and then get some relief
- Heavy rain in western Ethiopia may result in some flooding this week
- Some heavy rain may also evolve later this week in Central America from Nicaragua into Costa Rica
- Rain is still advertised to develop in southern India late this week and especially next week
- The northeast half of Canada’s Prairies will be dry over the coming week while the southwest gets rain and southwestern Alberta will be wettest
- Rain may develop in the drier areas of the northeast next week, though confidence is low

5 days ago
5 days ago
NOT MANY CHANGES SUGGESTED AT MID-DAY TODAY
- Rain was reduced in northern Canada's Prairies - a change that was needed
- Rain was increased in U.S. hard red winter wheat production areas
- Most other areas get rain at one time or another through the next ten days
- World Weather, Inc. believes a favorable weather pattern will prevail through the end of this month, despite some warming and slightly less rain after day ten of the outlook
- No big blocking weather pattern is expected in North America
- Very little change worthy of noting was suggested in Europe with France and the lower Danube River Basin still expected to deal with very warm and dry biased conditions
- A little more rain was suggested in the central Russian New Lands at mid-day today
- No serious changes were noted in China, India, Australia or South America

5 days ago
5 days ago
HIGHLIGHTS IN THIS VIDEO
- Localized areas of heavy U.S. rainfall overnight
- 7-Day Rainfall for the U.S.
- heavy amounts in northeastern Nebraska, Iowa and northern Illinois
- Weather Outlook for North America
- Cold surges today into Saturday and again during early to mid-week next week
- Doubts about Canada Prairies Rainfall
- Abundant to Excessive rain will fall in key Midwest crop areas
- West Texas rainfall
- Europe Weather
- Still Dry in France and the lower Danube River Basin next Ten Days to 2 weeks
- Warm temperatures bias, but no excessive heat
- Favorably moist central and northeast
- Drier outlook for parts of the Russia New Lands next ten days
- Wet in western Russia
- A mostly good mix of weather from eastern Ukraine into Kazakhstan
- Unusually cool in parts of north-central and interior western Russia crop areas
- China weather mostly good, but dryness to return in east-central crop areas
- India's outlook is a little wetter in the south, but ECMWF model too wet
- No changes in Australia
- Argentina rainfall should be good for winter wheat next week
- Brazil harvest weather in Safrinha crop areas will remain good

5 days ago
5 days ago
WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR FRIDAY, JULY 11, 2025
- No blocking ridge of high pressure is expected over North America for the next ten days
- Unusually cold weather is expected in the central United States and south-central Canada during the coming week to ten days
- Portions of interior western and northern Russia may also be cooler than usual during the next ten days
- Rain is still predicted in most U.S. crop areas during the coming ten days with some of it heavy at times especially early to mid-week next week as unusually colder air moves southward from Canada into a warm and humid environment in the central and eastern states
- France and the lower Danube River Basin will continue to experience poor rainfall for the next ten days and temperatures will be warmer than usual at times, although not as oppressively hot as that of earlier this month
- Western and northern Russia will see wave of rain maintaining moist conditions
- Eastern Ukraine, Russia's Southern Region and western Kazakhstan will see good harvest weather for a while, but some timely rain may come along later next week and into the latter part of this month periodically to support summer crops
- China weather should be well mixed, although a small part of east-central China may be drier than usual
- No changes in Australia, Brazil or Argentina weather
- Argentina's western wheat and barley areas will get some rain today and more generalized rain is likely in much of the wheat region next week
- Southern India may finally get "some" needed rain later this month, but the central north and east will be wettest in this coming week