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Morning Market Weather For Friday, May 16, 2025

WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY 16, 2025

• Not many changes occurred overnight
• Most U.S. crop areas will get rain at one time or another, although West and South Texas, the Texas Coastal Bend and other crop areas near the Gulf of Mexico coast to southern Georgia and Florida will be dry for at least the next ten days
  • Restricted rain is also expected in the southwestern U.S. hard red winter wheat region and in the interior valleys of the Pacific Northwest
  • Too much rain is possible in the lower Midwest, a part of the northern Delta and portions of the Tennessee River Basin next week resulting in more field working delays
• Significant relief has occurred to dryness in the western Dakotas, southeastern Saskatchewan and southwestern Manitoba because of rain that fell the past two days
  • Additional rain next week from parts of South Dakota and Nebraska into Iowa and far southern Minnesota will bring some greater relief to recent drying, as well
• Northern Europe dryness will continue for another week to ten days before a boost in precipitation evolves
• Southern Europe will remain favorably moist along with northern Algeria and northern Tunisia
• Rain in Ukraine and western and northern Russia will be great for long term crop development, but may slow fieldwork in the coming ten days
• Russia’s Southern region and western Kazakhstan will get some showers in the next week to ten days, although greater volumes of rain may still be needed in a few areas, although no excessive heat is expected
• China’s dry areas in the Yellow River Basin will get some relief late next week and more likely in the last week of May when periodic rain falls
• Southern China will be quite wet over the next ten days impacting rice, sugarcane and some other crops
  • Late harvesting of rapeseed could be impacted as well with a possible quality decline south of the Yangtze River
• India’s pre-monsoonal rainfall will be significant in the south half of the nation and in the far Eastern States during the coming ten days
• Southern Australia wheat, barley and canola areas are waiting for significant rain to improve planting, emergence and establishment conditions
  • Another week of mostly dry conditions is expected before rain potentials begin to improve
  • Recent rain in Queensland and New South Wales and that coming this weekend will improve some planting and emergence conditions for winter crops while disrupting some fieldwork; including the harvest of late summer crops
• Central and eastern Argentina will be wet this weekend slowing fieldwork, but ensuring a good start to wheat planting and establishment
• Center south and center west Brazil will be seasonably dry for the next ten days while far southern Brazil gets some rain periodically
• Southeast Asia rainfall will be increasing over the next ten days

Morning Market Weather For Thursday, May 15, 2025

WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR MAY 15, 2025

• Rain is underway today in the southeastern half of Saskatchewan, Canada, far southwestern Manitoba and the western Dakotas where significant rainfall of 0.75 to 2.50 inches is anticipated with a few amounts of 2.50 to more than 3.00 inches likely in the western Dakotas and far southeastern Saskatchewan. The precipitation will bolster soil moisture and ease some long term dryness
• Most other U.S. crop areas east of the Rocky Mountains will get rain at one time or another during the next two weeks, although rain from the central Plains to the heart of the Midwest will hold off until next week
  • The Gulf of Mexico coastal region is unlikely to get much rain
  • The southwestern Plains (including western Kansas and eastern Colorado into West Texas will be dry for the next ten days
  • Most models removed rain from West Texas in the second week of the forecast
  • Interior parts of the Pacific Northwest (Yakima Basin and Columbia River Basin do not get much rain over the next two weeks
• Rain was increased by the ECMWF model in China’s dry region for the second week forecast today and the GFS has been wetter in that second week for a while
• ECMWF continues to promote dryness in the North Sea region for the next ten days while the GFS is still advertising rain after day ten
  • The potential for some rain after day ten makes the most sense – the ECMWF may be too dry
• Black Sea region precipitation continues to be advertised with Ukraine wettest and Russia’s Southern region and western Kazakhstan driest, but not completely dry
• Southern Australia wheat, barley and canola areas are still advertised to be drier than usual for at least the next ten days
• Some rain developed in far southeastern Queensland and northeastern New South Wales, Australia Wednesday and some additional showers are expected there for a couple of additional days
• No serious changes in South America where Argentina is poised for one of its best wheat planting years in a very long time and Safrinha corn and cotton areas will receive little to no rain outside of Paraguay and some Parana locations late next week and into the following weekend
• Significant rain fell in northeastern and north-central Algeria and northern Tunisia overnight and additional rain is expected to benefit late season wheat and barley as they finish reproduction, fill and mature
• Eastern Europe cool weather will slowly abate over the next week
• Frost and freezes are still expected this weekend in eastern Canada’s Prairies and a part of North Dakota and northern Minnesota with a limited amount of crop damage resulting
• Aggressive early season start to the Monsoon Season is expected in Southeast Asia and southern India

Sunday Evening Market Weather For May 11

In this audio report is an update on world weather as it may impact the Commodity Trade for Sunday, Evening May 11, 2025

• Argentina is not as wet as advertised Friday
• Southern Brazil Safrinha crop areas received rain during the weekend and most of center west and center south will be dry biased over the next ten days
• China’s dry region shrunk a little as rain fell additionally in Hebei and Shandong, but still quite dry from Henan and neighboring areas to Shaanxi, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia
• Rain is still likely in the Black Sea region
• North-central Europe will remain dry (centered on Germany and the North Sea)
• Additional frost and light freezes occurred in Eastern Europe
• Australia winter crop areas will remain dry biased
• India’s northern rain is ending
• S. central and southwestern Plains will be dry for a while along with the interior Pacific Northwest
• Drought relief has begun in the southeastern U.S. and more rain is expected
• Extreme heat occurred in north-central U.S. with Minot, N.D. reaching 99 Fahrenheit and Hallock, MN reaching 100
• Central U.S. heat wave will continue into mid-week followed by cooling
• Rain is likely in the central Midwest from Nebraska and Kansas to northern Illinois and Iowa next week

Central U.S. Dryness To Prevail Into Mid-March

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U.S. Agriculture Weather For Friday, February 21, 2025

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Today's Mid-Day Audio Weather For Thursday, February 20, 2025

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Canada Prairies Audio Weather For Sunday, February 2, 2025

Today's report is a cold and dry one. 

Canada Prairies Video Weather For Sunday, February 2, 2025

The weather outlook across the Prairies will be cold and relatively dry for a while in the coming ten days.  Take a look at our Sunday evening video.  Please note that we have also released the Canadian Prairies Agricultural Weather Prognosticator for February.  Let us know if you did not get it. 

Canada Prairies PowerPoint For Sunday, January 26, 2025

This week's weather is expected to trend warmer than usual. Snowfall will be greatest in the northeast early this week, but snow will develop in portions of northern and some central Alberta locations during the late weekend and especially the weekend. Above normal temperatures are likely this workweek and then a new round of cold weather is expected late this weekend and especially next week. Temperatures will fall well below normal in Alberta and Saskatchewan first. 

World Weather PowerPoint For Tuesday, January 21, 2025

This is a copy of the World Weather, Inc. PowerPoint That was sent out Tuesday, January 21, 2025