Morning Market Weather For Friday, May 16, 2025

WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY 16, 2025

• Not many changes occurred overnight
• Most U.S. crop areas will get rain at one time or another, although West and South Texas, the Texas Coastal Bend and other crop areas near the Gulf of Mexico coast to southern Georgia and Florida will be dry for at least the next ten days
  • Restricted rain is also expected in the southwestern U.S. hard red winter wheat region and in the interior valleys of the Pacific Northwest
  • Too much rain is possible in the lower Midwest, a part of the northern Delta and portions of the Tennessee River Basin next week resulting in more field working delays
• Significant relief has occurred to dryness in the western Dakotas, southeastern Saskatchewan and southwestern Manitoba because of rain that fell the past two days
  • Additional rain next week from parts of South Dakota and Nebraska into Iowa and far southern Minnesota will bring some greater relief to recent drying, as well
• Northern Europe dryness will continue for another week to ten days before a boost in precipitation evolves
• Southern Europe will remain favorably moist along with northern Algeria and northern Tunisia
• Rain in Ukraine and western and northern Russia will be great for long term crop development, but may slow fieldwork in the coming ten days
• Russia’s Southern region and western Kazakhstan will get some showers in the next week to ten days, although greater volumes of rain may still be needed in a few areas, although no excessive heat is expected
• China’s dry areas in the Yellow River Basin will get some relief late next week and more likely in the last week of May when periodic rain falls
• Southern China will be quite wet over the next ten days impacting rice, sugarcane and some other crops
  • Late harvesting of rapeseed could be impacted as well with a possible quality decline south of the Yangtze River
• India’s pre-monsoonal rainfall will be significant in the south half of the nation and in the far Eastern States during the coming ten days
• Southern Australia wheat, barley and canola areas are waiting for significant rain to improve planting, emergence and establishment conditions
  • Another week of mostly dry conditions is expected before rain potentials begin to improve
  • Recent rain in Queensland and New South Wales and that coming this weekend will improve some planting and emergence conditions for winter crops while disrupting some fieldwork; including the harvest of late summer crops
• Central and eastern Argentina will be wet this weekend slowing fieldwork, but ensuring a good start to wheat planting and establishment
• Center south and center west Brazil will be seasonably dry for the next ten days while far southern Brazil gets some rain periodically
• Southeast Asia rainfall will be increasing over the next ten days