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Weather is one of the top most influential features in daily commodity futures trading. It is also the most important consideration for food company's making purchasing commitments and farmers to determine hedge positions and planting decisions. World Weather, Inc. has 73 years of combined agricultural world weather forecasting experience and its staff has been supporting the commodity futures trade since 1979. This daily podcast will provide insight to the day's most important weather issues influencing world market trading. It is designed to discuss all of the most important weather-related issues of the day and will help explain how those weather issues will influence production and help the listener make better business decisions whether in the commodity futures market or out of it.
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Friday Mar 20, 2026
Friday Mar 20, 2026
HIGHLIGHTS IN THIS VIDEO
- South America Update
- Southwestern Argentina is advertised a little drier in the coming ten days relative to previous model runs
- Rio Grande do Sul is wetter in today’s outlooks for the coming weekend and into early next week
- Rain is a little more erratic in the Mato Grosso to Minas Gerais corridor relative to yesterday
- Weeks 1 and 2 rainfall assessment
- Week 2 is looking drier with a more erratic rainfall pattern which is important as the end of the monsoon season approaches
- North America Update
- Month to date rainfall assessment for the United States
- New Drought Monitor
- Concern about dryness in western North America as the warmer days of spring approach
- This week’s heatwave will add more stress to wheat areas in the Plains
- Western U.S. snowpack is going to be lower than usual this spring which may lead to water issues later in the year and especially in 2027 unless El Nino brings needed relief
- Weather outlook is quite dry fo4r a big party of the central and western U.S. over the next ten days
- Prospects for rain in early April investigated
- Relief is possible, but not necessarily in the western high Plains region
- Southwesterly flow pattern aloft is expected in April to help bring on greater rain in the central and eastern Midwest
- Rest of World
- Few theme changes noted overnight
- India has a milder than usual temperature regime in this first week
- India also gets a few random showers helping crops as they fill
- Middle East Flood potential still high in the coming week
- Europe weather will be tranquil for a while
- CIS snow melt will continue to advance well without new rain/snow to aggravate the situation
- China’s Yangtze River Basin will be wettest
- Most of east-central China’s wheat and rapeseed areas benefited for the past week of weather
- Eastern Australia dryness will favor maturing summer crops and their harvest
- South Africa will trend wetter
- Few theme changes noted overnight
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