Morning Market Weather Update For Monday, February 27, 2023

WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR FEBRUARY 27, 2023

• Not much change occurred in the world during the weekend
• Heavy rain and impressive mountain snow fell in California resulting in some flooding and another round of impressive snow accumulation to impact runoff potentials in the spring
• Thunderstorms occurred Sunday night and early today in central and eastern parts of U.S. hard red winter wheat country with moisture totals of 0.10 to 0.74 inch resulting.
  • South-central Kansas was wettest along with north-central Oklahoma
  • The high Plains region did not receive much moisture, but a few areas in central and northwestern Oklahoma reported more than 1.00 inch
• West and South Texas and the Texas Coastal Bend area will continue quite dry over the next ten days, although some showers will impact West Texas briefly later this week
• Temperatures will be cold in western parts of North America this week and very warm to the east
• Argentina will see restricted rainfall during the next ten days in the central and south while rain falls later this week in the north
• Brazil will see rain periodically in all crop areas during the next couple of weeks excepting Bahia, northeastern Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo where net drying is expected
• Eastern Australia’s unirrigated summer crops will continue dry biased and looking for significant rain
• India will be dry for another week and then a few showers may pop up in parts of central India during the second week of March
• Southern Europe and northern Africa will be wetter biased during the coming ten days which may improve soil moisture in the drier areas
• Western CIS crop weather will continue wet biased for the coming week to ten days
• Eastern China will not see much precipitation for a while
• South Africa will be drier biased early this week and then rain will increase once again.