Morning Market Weather Update For Wednesday, August 2, 2023

WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR AUGUST 2, 2023

• Not many changes occurred overnight
• Northern Europe’s wet weather continues a threat to unharvested winter crop quality
• Net drying from Russia’s Southern Region to northwestern Kazakhstan and the southern Ural Mountains region remains a concern for late season crops
• The northeast half of India will be excessively wet in the coming week
• Western and southern India rainfall will be limited for a while benefitting crops in north while keeping those in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh too dry
• Typhoon Khanun is expected to produce copious rain, severe flooding and damaging wind in the Ryukyu Islands of Japan this week due to its slow movement.
  • The storm will eventually threaten Japan’s main islands and possibly southeastern South Korea, but not until next week.
• U.S. crop weather will be wettest from South Dakota into Kansas and from there east across the lower Midwest into the northern Delta and southeastern states during the next ten days
• Northernmost parts of the U.S. Midwest may continue a little drier than usual
• Texas crop areas south of the Red River Valley will be dry for another week
• Canada’s Prairies will be dry for at least another week; crop damage cannot be reversed by any rain that falls in the next few weeks, although rain could still improve a few late season canola crops in the east as well as some corn, soybean and flax crops
• Argentina continues to be advertised to get minimal rainfall into next week
• Brazil’s Safrinha harvest will continue to advance without much weather related delay
• Wheat in southern Brazil and eastern Argentina remains favorably rated as it is in southern Australia and South Africa
• China weather will be mostly good, although drying is still needed in parts of the north after recent rain
• Slowly improving rainfall is expected in Indonesia and Malaysia in this coming week after a bout of significant drying occurred in this past week