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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

Morning Market Weather Update For Monday, September 11, 2023

WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

• Frost and freeze conditions occurred in southeastern Australia during the weekend burning back new wheat, barley and canola development
  • Frost and light freezes occurred in Queensland and far northern New South Wales where wheat and barley are either reproducing or about to begin the process
• Victoria and southwestern Western Australia will get some occasional light rain for wheat, barley and canola, but reproduction areas to the north will remain dry and warm for the next ten days
• Torrential rain and flooding occurred in Guangdong, China again during the weekend with a few areas getting 29.96 to 36.37 inches of rain since Friday morning. This region received torrential rain in the previous weekend from Typhoon Saola
• Other areas in China experienced good drying conditions in the northeast, east-central and southeast during the weekend, but these areas will trend wetter in the coming week
• India will receive rain in the central and east through the next week while the northwest and far south are notably drier than usual
• Northwestern India may receive some needed rain next week impacting a part of Gujarat and Rajasthan
• Some rain will fall in Ukraine and Russia’s Southern Region wheat area next week, but this week will be dry biased and the rain that falls next week is not likely to be very great
• Europe will trend wetter this week slowing fieldwork, but improving soil moisture for winter crop planting
• U.S. hard red winter wheat areas will get rain this week with sufficient amounts to improve planting, emergence and establishment conditions
• U.S. Midwest will experience net drying in the coming week to ten days favoring summer crop maturation and harvest progress
• Hurricane Lee with threatened northern New England, southeastern Quebec, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland a week from now
• Western Argentina will continue drier than usual for the next ten days
• Southern Brazil will remain wet through the end of next week, although there will be some breaks in the precipitation

Sunday Evening Market Weather Update For September 10, 2023

WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

• Not much change occurred during the weekend
• Southern Australia will get some occasional light rain for wheat, barley and canola, but reproduction areas to the north will remain dry and warm for the next ten days
• India will receive rain in the central and east through the next ten days while the northwest is drier biased the far south is notably drier than usual
• Some rain will fall in Ukraine and Russia’s Southern Region wheat area, but greater amounts will be needed to ensure the best planting and emergence conditions
• China experienced good drying conditions in the northeast, east-central and southeast during the weekend, but these areas will trend wetter in the coming week
• Torrential rain and flooding occurred in Guangdong, China again during the weekend with one coastal area getting more than 25.00 inches
• Europe will trend wetter this week slowing fieldwork, but improving soil moisture for winter crop planting
• U.S. hard red winter wheat areas will get rain this week with sufficient amounts to improve planting, emergence and establishment conditions
• U.S. Midwest will experience net drying in the coming week to ten days favoring summer crop maturation and harvest progress
• Hurricane Lee with threatened northern New England, southeastern Quebec, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland a week from now
• Western Argentina will continue drier than usual for the next ten days
• Southern Brazil will remain wet through the end of next week, although there will be some breaks in the precipitation

Morning Market Weather Update For Friday, September 8, 2023

WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

• Not much change occurred overnight
• Some concern remains over dryness in Russia’s southern Region and neighboring areas of Ukraine for wheat planting
• Europe continues dry and warm, although the pattern will break next week leading to waves of light rainfall that may slow summer crop maturation and harvest progress at times
• India will continue to get rain in the central and eastern parts of the nation maintaining a good outlook for many crops
• Northwestern and far southern India will continue to dry out
• China weather should be mostly well mixed, although too much rain will continue in a part of the far south (Guangdong and southern Fujian in particular)
• Australia will continue receiving periodic rain in the far south supporting wheat, barley and canola while northern winter crop areas remain dry and very warm at times
• Western wheat and canola areas of South Africa are getting timely rain
• Argentina’s western wheat areas will receive a minimal amount of rain for an extended period of time
• Rio Grande do Sul, Uruguay, southern Paraguay, Santa Catarina and southern Parana, Brazil will receive rain frequently for another week resulting in ongoing concern about too much moisture
• Safrinha corn and cotton harvesting will continue to slowly wind down in Brazil with mostly good weather prevailing
• Rain will be needed in coffee areas of Brazil again later this month to induce more flowering and support pollination
• U.S. western and some central corn and soybean areas will be dry over the next week to ten days
• U.S. hard red winter wheat areas will get welcome rain late this weekend through early next week that will support better planting, emergence and establishment conditions
• Canada and the far northern U.S. Plains will receive a limited amount of rain favoring crop maturation and harvest progress
• Hurricane Lee will pack wind speeds between 165 and 180 mph today. The storm is still far from land, but may become a threat to the upper east coast of North America a week from now
• Tropical Storm Margot in the Atlantic Ocean will become a hurricane late this weekend or early next week, but it will move to the central Atlantic Ocean and pose no threat to land
• Southeast Asia will receive periodic rain, although southern Indonesia will be dry biased

International Agricultural Video Weather Update For September 7, 2023

World Weather, Inc. produces a daily weather video covering the primary agricultural areas of the world. The attachment is a sample of that daily recorded message.  The purpose of the recording is to update commodity traders, brokers, food companies and producers of the key weather issues of the day. Each day the recording focuses on the subject matters that are most important to the marketplace as well as what may have influence on agricultural production both in the near- and long-term. 

Morning Market Weather Update For Thursday, September 7, 2023

WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

• Flooding rain in Greece has ended and the cleanup from this week’s horrific conditions is under way damage to some crops and property resulted and a full assessment will be made of the impact in the next couple of weeks
•  Much of Europe was again Wednesday with temperatures very warm to hot in the west where highs in the 80s reached the U.K. for a second day in a row and readings in the lower and a few middle 90s occurred in France
• Dry and warm weather in Europe should break down next week with a few waves of rain expected near and beyond mid-month
• Southern Russia and parts of Ukraine wheat areas need rain and the region will be dry or mostly dry during much of the next ten days
• Central and eastern India will receive frequent rain keeping the ground abundantly wet
• Far northern and extreme southern India will remain drier than usual for the next couple of weeks
• East-central China weather will remain drier biased for the next ten days and then rain will resume
• Northeastern China will see a good mix of rain and sunshine over the next ten days
• Southern China will be wet over the next ten days
• Southern Australia will receive brief periods of rain in the next couple of weeks while northern winter crop areas are dry biased
• Argentina’s western wheat areas will remain drier than usual for the next couple of weeks
• Southern Brazil will remain excessively wet over the next week and then may dry down late next week through Sep. 22
• U.S. hard red winter wheat areas will get welcome and needed rain Saturday into Tuesday improving planting and emergence conditions
• Texas will get badly needed rain next week
• Canada’s Prairies will get limited rainfall and experience good harvest weather for the next week
• Central U.S. Midwest and Delta crop areas will be dry through the weekend
  • Rain next week will be limited to a few areas and it will have a low impact on summer crops
• Hurricane Lee in the Atlantic Ocean will be closely monitored and will be a massive storm of great intensity, but it should weaken before impacting the upper U.S. east coast, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland Canada late next week and into the following weekend
• Tropical Storm Yun-Yeung will move across central Honshu Friday producing some heavy rainfall, but very little damage

Morning Market Weather Update For Wednesday, September 6, 2023

WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

• Flooding in localized areas of Greece continued Tuesday and will prevail today. Some areas reported 2-3 feet of rainfall Monday into Tuesday, although the event was confined to a very small region. Some damaging weather also occurred in southern Bulgaria and northwestern Turkey
  • Heavy rain will end Thursday
• Unusually warm weather occurred in western Europe Tuesday with highs in the 90s Fahrenheit and lower to middle 30s Celsius as far north as northern France; Most of the European continent was dry, though
• Argentina is back to a dry weather mode in the west for the next ten day; no serious relief occurred to drought in the west in the past week, although relief did occur from eastern Cordoba through southern Santa Fe to northern Buenos Aires
• Brazil weather was mostly dry Tuesday and early today, but two waves of rain will return to the far south and in neighboring areas of southern Paraguay, northeastern Argentina and Uruguay in the coming ten days; one wave occurs tonight through Friday and another occurs Monday through Wednesday, Sep. 13. These events will perpetuate excessive moisture and some flooding
• U.S. hard red winter wheat areas will get rain late this weekend into Monday, although the precipitation will be highly variable benefiting some areas more than others
• Rain will fall across parts of Texas easing long term dryness late this weekend into Wednesday, Sep. 13
• Good crop maturation and harvest weather is expected in Canada’s Prairies and the northern U.S. Plains
• Europe dryness will last through the weekend and then brief waves of rain will occur from west to east offering relief to recent dryness
• Ukraine into Russia’s Southern Region will remain dry biased through the weekend and then “some” showers are expected
• Rain “may” creep into eastern Gujarat and southeastern Rajasthan, India next week for a brief period of time offering some relief to persistent dryness while areas farther to the north and west stay dry
• Central and eastern India will receive abundant rain through the next ten days with flooding possible in Madhya Pradesh, Bangladesh, and a few areas in between
  • Far southern India rainfall will continue well below normal
• Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam Rainfall has been improving in recent weeks and the trend may continue for a little while
• East-central China will experience net drying over the next ten days while rain falls in many other areas periodically; Guangdong and/or Fujian may get excessive rain again late next week
• Northern crop areas in Australia remain too dry for successful dryland winter crop reproduction

Morning Market Weather For Tuesday, September 5, 2023

WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

• Flooding rain occurred in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Friday through Monday and more is expected which may lead to wheat damage, although there will be some timely breaks in the precipitation so that runoff can occur
• Argentina received some badly needed rain during the weekend from eastern Cordoba through southern Santa Fe to northern Buenos Aires immediate neighboring areas where rainfall varied from 1.00 to 2.75 inches
• Southern Argentina; including southern Buenos Aires, La Pampa and southern Cordoba failed to get much rain and remained very dry
• Flooding rain from typhoons Saola and Haikui impacted far southern China and Taiwan respectively
• India’s northern crop areas were dry during the weekend and they should remain that way this week. Rain is expected in the central and eastern parts of the nation and that should prove to be beneficial for crops in those areas
• Far southern India still needs greater rain, although there has been some timely rain recently
• Southern Australia will get timely rainfall during the next two weeks, but northern wheat and barley areas will not
• Central U.S. Midwest crop areas will be dry over the coming week while light rain occurs in the Ohio River Basin and from the northern Plains into Minnesota and Wisconsin
• Rain fell heavily in eastern Mississippi, western Alabama and parts of Florida during the weekend
• U.S. hard red winter wheat production areas are unlikely to get much rain through the weekend, but rain is expected to fall early next week
• Canada’s Prairies weather will be favorable for early season crop maturation and harvest progress
• Europe received rain in the southwest during the weekend delaying farming activity, but bringing some relief to dryness in Spain, Portugal and southern France.
• Greece is expecting some flooding rain this week
• A new tropical cyclone will form in the central tropical Atlantic in the next day or two with a second system expected off the Africa west coast later this week

Monday Evening Market Weather Update For September 4, 2023

WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

• Flooding rain occurred in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Friday through Monday and more is expected which may lead to wheat damage, although there will be some timely breaks in the precipitation so that runoff can occur
• Argentina received some badly needed rain during the weekend from eastern Cordoba through southern Santa Fe to northern Buenos Aires immediate neighboring areas where rainfall varied from 1.00 to 2.75 inches
• Southern Argentina; including southern Buenos Aires, La Pampa and southern Cordoba failed to get much rain and remain very dry
• Flooding rain from typhoons Saola and Haikui impacted far southern China and Taiwan respectively
  • Damage to rice and sugarcane is being assessed and it will take a few days for the damage reports to surface
• India’s northern crop areas were dry during the weekend and they should remain that way this week. Rain is expected in the central and eastern parts of the nation and that should prove to be beneficial for crops in those areas
• Far southern India still needs greater rain, although there has been some timely rain recently
• Southern Australia will get timely rainfall during the next two weeks, but northern wheat and barley areas will not
  • Reproduction is getting under way in Queensland, Northern New South Wales and Western Australia without much moisture in the ground and little to no rain expected
• Central U.S. Midwest crop areas will be dry over the coming week while light rain occurs in the Ohio River Basin and from the northern Plains into Minnesota and Wisconsin
• Rain fell heavily in eastern Mississippi, western Alabama and parts of Florida during the weekend
• U.S. hard red winter wheat production areas are unlikely to get much rain through the weekend, but rain is expected to fall early next week
• Canada’s Prairies weather will favorable for early season crop maturation and harvest progress
• Europe received rain in the southwest during the weekend delaying farming activity, but bringing some relief to dryness in Spain, Portugal and southern France.
• Most tropical cyclones in the western Pacific, eastern Pacific and Atlantic Ocean have dissipated, but a new tropical cyclone will form in the central tropical Atlantic in the next day or two with a second system expected off the Africa west coast later this week
  • The storm in the central tropical Atlantic could eventually threaten the northeastern Leeward Islands then shift to the open water east of the United States, but there is plenty of time for change in the outlook and the system should be closely monitored

Morning Market Weather Update For Friday, September 1, 2023

WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

• Argentina will receive some welcome rain from northern and east-central Cordoba into Entre Rios and northern Buenos Aires this weekend improving topsoil moisture for better wheat establishment
  • Southwestern wheat areas of Argentina will not get much rain or much relief from dryness
  • Follow up rain may occur in eastern crop areas later next week
• Tropical cyclones Franklin, Idalia, Jose and Gert in the Atlantic Ocean pose no threat to land except for Tropical Storm Idalia which may impact Bermuda this weekend
  • A new tropical cyclone is expected in the central tropical Atlantic Ocean next week that will be closely monitored for possible impact on the Antilles
• Typhoon Saola will impact Guangdong and Guangxi, China with torrential rain this weekend
• The southern China ports of Guangdong and Hong Kong will likely be shut down by Typhoon Saola today and during the weekend due to high wind speeds, rough seas and torrential rainfall
• Typhoon Haikui could impact Taiwan and possibly southeastern China next week with some damaging wind, rain and flooding possible in Taiwan
• U.S. weather will trend wetter in the second week of the forecast in the Midwest and a part of the northern Plains
• North America temperatures will be quite warm into next week especially in Canada and the central United States
• Southwestern Europe will trend wetter in the next week to ten days
• Eastern Ukraine into western Kazakhstan will continue drier and warmer than usual through the next ten days
• China will dry down in the coming week outside of the southern coastal provinces where Typhoon Saola and Typhoon Haikui will impact
• Northwestern India is still unlikely to see significant rain over the next ten days
• Southern Australia rainfall will support winter crops while northern wheat and barley areas are dry or mostly dry for the next ten days