Morning Market Weather For Monday, May 19, 2025

WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY 19, 2025

• Northern Europe’s dry-biased weather is advertised to begin easing next week
• A portion of China’s dry region gets isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms Wednesday into Thursday and a few more during the weekend, although not all of the dry area gets rain and much more rain will be needed soon to improve the long range outlook for rain-fed summer crops
• Southern China will receive frequent abundant to excessive rain eventually leading to some flooding
  • This impacts rice, sugarcane and citrus production areas as well as some minor corn and soybean areas
  • Southern rapeseed areas will also be impacted and any unharvested crop may suffer a quality decline
• Portions of eastern New South Wales, Australia crop areas will get some needed rain late this week to improve canola, wheat and barley planting and emergence conditions in unirrigated fields
• Interior Western Australia will continued drier biased during the next ten days along with interior South Australia leaving winter crop areas in need of moisture
• Ukraine will get waves of moisture in the next ten days along with many other western former Soviet Union crop areas
• Russia’s Southern Region will get “some” rain this week, but greater amounts of moisture may be desirable
  • Temperatures will be cool this week and warmer than usual next week
• An aggressive start to monsoon moisture is advertised for the southern half of India eastward through most of the mainland areas of Southeast Asia possibly inducing floods of significance in early June
• Many areas in Argentina will be dry this workweek; rain will fall in the far north during mid- to late week and then many areas will get rain Saturday and Sunday in the east before more drying occurs after that
• Southern Brazil (southern Paraguay and southern Parana into Rio Grande do Sul and Uruguay) will get waves of rain over the next ten days resulting in some local flooding. The greatest rain is expected late this coming weekend into early next week
• Center west, center south and northeastern Brazil will be dry and warm during the next two weeks
• Southern Mexico will get drought and dryness relief in the south beginning late this week and continuing through the weekend and into next week
• Most of the central and northern U.S. Plains, Midwest, northern Delta and Tennessee River Basin will get rain this week with less precipitation and warmer temperatures advertised for next week
  • Flooding may return to the northern Delta, Tennessee, Kentucky, southern Missouri and the Ohio River Basin
• A U.S. severe weather outbreak is expected today in the east-central and southeastern U.S. Plains and parts of Missouri into Arkansas
  • The stormy weather will shift to the lower Midwest, Tennessee River Basin and Delta Tuesday