Morning Market Weather For Tuesday, January 23, 2024

WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR JANUARY 23, 2024

• U.S. Delta is facing flooding rainfall over the next five days
  • Rain totals of 3.00 to 6.00 inches and local totals of upwards to 10.00 inches are expected by Sunday
  • The area includes one of the nation’s driest regions and will largely remove dryness from the region
• Moderate rain occurred Monday and overnight from eastern Texas to central Arkansas where rain totals varied from 1.00 to 3.00 inches
• Argentina will continue to dry down for another week to ten days, but rain potentials should rise in early February
  • Crop moisture stress will be greatest in central and southern Buenos Aires and central and southern La Pampa for a while especially in the late double cropped soybean areas where recently planting has left some crops with short root systems
• Most of the Brazil will get rain with moderate to heavy amounts in the north from Bahia and northern Minas Gerais to Tocantins and northern Goias
  • Sao Paulo, southwestern Minas Gerais, eastern Mato Grosso do Sul and southern Goias will receive lighter than usual rain, but showers will occur to maintain crop needs
• Tropical Cyclone 07P has formed northeast of Queensland, Australia with landfall expected Thursday along the central Coast
  • This storm promises to bring dryness easing rain to interior eastern Queensland cotton, sorghum, peanut and other coarse grain and oilseed production areas
    • Sugarcane will benefit as well
• Stormy weather in northern Europe will produce some strong wind rain and rough seas over the next couple of days
• Southwestern and west-central Europe and North Africa will be dry biased over the next ten days to two weeks
  • Drought will continue in southern Spain, portions of Morocco and northwestern Algeria
• South Africa will get timely rainfall, although western summer crop areas will need higher volumes of rain to maintain the best crop development potential
• Western CIS will continue to see waves of snow and some rain keeping spring flood potentials higher than usual
• India precipitation potentials remain poor as reproduction of winter crops approaches
  • Greater rain is needed to support reproduction
• China weather will remain fine along with most of Indonesia, Malaysia and southern and eastern Philippines
  • Northwestern Luzon Islands, Philippines is a little too dry
• Canada’s Prairies and the northern U.S. Plains will remain dry and warm biased for the next ten days and possibly longer
• West Texas will get a little moisture soon, but not enough to seriously change the moisture profile
• U.S. Midwest crop areas will get enough moisture to maintain good field conditions except in the far northwest where there will be some need for spring precipitation ahead of planting