Morning Market Weather Update For Thursday, April 27, 2023

WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR APRIL 27, 2023

• Southern portions of Russia’s eastern New Lands and northern Kazakhstan are still advertised dry and warm biased over the next ten days and perhaps a little longer
• Dryness remains in Spain and North Africa
• U.S. hard red winter wheat areas will see some follow up rain later today and Friday that will further improve crop and field conditions for better spring planting and for some additional improvement to wheat conditions
• Dry and warm biased weather in western Canada will promote spring fieldwork
• Eastern Canada’s Prairies and the eastern part of North Dakota and Minnesota will experience cool conditions for another week and the remaining snow will melt; fieldwork will be slow to begin in many areas
• Lower and west-central U.S. Midwest crop areas will receive lighter than usual precipitation over the next two weeks with cool weather in the first week and a return to more normal temperatures in the second week
• Argentina has a little more rain potential for the second week of the outlook today, but net drying will continue in this first week
• Brazil’s center west and center south crop areas will continue to receive restricted precipitation which is normal for this time of year
• Southern Brazil will experience some periodic rainfall that will maintain a good outlook for late season crops
• New South Wales and a part of Queensland will receive some rain briefly Friday into Saturday to benefit future winter crop planting, but follow up rain will be needed
• Watch Western Australia where the need for rain is expected to rise for a while
• Wetter weather is expected in the western CIS while Europe sees routinely occurring rainfall outside of the Iberian Peninsula where it should be dry for a while