Morning Market Weather Update For Tuesday, September 12, 2023

WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

•  Northwestern India will begin to see increased rainfall this weekend and especially next week improving cotton, rice, groundnut and other crops after an extended period of dry weather
• Australia’s reproducing winter crops in Queensland northern New South Wales and northern Western Australia will not receive significant rain into the latter part of this month resulting in lower yields for unirrigated fields
• Southern Australia winter crop conditions will remain in good shape
• Western Argentina wheat, corn and sunseed areas will remain dry biased for nearly ten days
• Southern Brazil will get rain into Wednesday and then turn drier for a little while.  Additional rain will evolve early next week
• Seasonal rains are expected to increase in northern South America during the next few weeks
• U.S. hard red winter wheat areas are benefiting from rain this week and improved planting and emergence conditions will result
• Restricted U.S. Midwest rainfall will further promote summer crop maturation and early season harvest progress around showers
• Canada’s Prairies may turn wetter near and after September 20
• Frost and freezes may evolve in Alberta, Canada Sep. 20-22, but this is later than usual
• Hurricane Lee should lose its tropical characteristics as the storm bears down on Maine and Nova Scotia, Canada this weekend, but tropical storm force wind will impact many areas along with a notable storm surge and heavy rainfall
• Europe rainfall will be greatest in the west next week, but a favorable mix of rain and sunshine is likely in most areas until then
• CIS crop weather will continue drier than usual in Russia’s Southern Region and Volga River Basin for the next ten days
• Ukraine winter crop areas will get some precipitation in the next two weeks
• Northern Kazakhstan and southern Russia spring wheat and sunseed areas are wetter than usual raising a little crop quality concern