Morning Market Weather Update fir Friday, February 17, 2023

WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR FEBRUARY 17, 2023

• Unusually cool temperatures occurred in southwestern Argentina this morning with extreme lows of 37 to 46 degrees Fahrenheit or +2 to +8C
  • Readings were not cold enough for a long enough period of time to induce any threat of damage, although crop growth rates were slowed
• Argentina is advertised to be dry through Wednesday of next week
  • Showers and thunderstorms that develop late next week are unlikely to soak the ground, but any moisture would be welcome
    • The precipitation will be greatest in the north where some relief from dryness is likely; however, southern parts of the nation are unlikely to get significant moisture through the first day in March
• No change in Brazil’s forecast was noted overnight
  • A disruption to farming activity is likely in Mato Grosso this weekend and next week for a little while and then drier weather will resume again late this month and in early March
• Brazil’s wettest weather is still expected in Parana, Sao Paulo, Mato Grosso do Sul and southern Minas Gerais where delays in harvesting are most likely
• U.S. hard red wheat areas received significant snow Wednesday into Thursday morning with most of the snow occurring during the day Thursday falling from central and southwestern Iowa to northern and central Lower Michigan
  • Total accumulations from Colorado to Michigan the past two days ranged from 4 to 11 inches and moisture from the eventual melting snow will lift topsoil moisture in a part of the central Plains
• Snow will fall in the northern U.S. Plains and upper Midwest during the middle part of next week slowing travel, but providing some beneficial moisture when the snow melts
• Florida, southern Georgia and South Carolina will experience net drying over the next 10-12 days while precipitation is much more abundant in the Tennessee River Basin and the immediate Ohio River Valley
• Western Europe will experience a boost in precipitation next week improving topsoil moisture for France, northern Spain and northern Portugal as well as across much of the North and Baltic Sea regions
• Southeastern Europe will be driest over the next ten days
• North Africa precipitation will be restricted over the next week except in Morocco where some welcome rain is likely
  • No change in production potential is expected, though
• Waves of snow will move from the Baltic States and Belarus through southwestern Ukraine to the southern Ural Mountain region and northwestern Kazakhstan crop areas during the coming week to ten days
  • The snow may slow travel and stress livestock
• India is still advertised to receive a restricted amount of rain during the next two weeks resulting in crop moisture stress during reproduction
• China weather will continue mostly good for its winter crops during the next two weeks
• Southeast Asia oil palm weather will be mostly good over the next two weeks
• Eastern Australia summer crop areas will continue to experience an erratic rainfall pattern that will not benefit very many crops for a while