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Russia’s Lower Volga Basin, Neighboring Areas Resume Drying

Kansas City, June 2 (World Weather Inc.) – A short term bout of rain fell in a part of Russia’s Southern Region during the weekend temporarily disrupting a new bout of drying that brought soil moisture back to the short and very short moisture levels late last week. The moisture was short-lived and the region will experience another week of dry and warm biased conditions further depleting soil moisture and stressing winter crops as they reproduce and fill. Neighboring areas of eastern Ukraine and western Kazakhstan failed to get rain during the weekend are destined to continue drying as well. Rain is advertised for a part of the drier-biased region next week. The moisture should come along and prevent dryness from threatening yields. Unirrigated summer crops in the region are also stressed in the drier and warmer biased environment and that will prevail until early next week. Favorably moist conditions are common in the remainder of the former Soviet Union.

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Canada Prairies Agricultural Weather Prognosticator For June 1, 2025

Inside this version of the Canadian Prairies Agricultural Weather Prognosticator there is a discussion of the potential for rain in June and July. The two months should generate more rain than in May for the heart of the Prairies, but a full restoration of soil moisture and ideal crop development is not likely. A comparison to precipitation in other dry springs is included in this newsletter with the distribution of rain for June and the April through August period in those years. An update on May precipitation across the Prairies is included along with soil moisture for other areas around the world. An update on China’s drought is included along with a special report on Australia’s wheat, barley and canola planting prospects.

World Soil Moisture Areas of Concern For Friday, May 30, 2025

Kansas City, May 30 (World Weather Inc.) – Some traders have been complaining that world weather is not adverse enough to drive the commodity futures markets higher. Of course the problem is more a demand issue than a production issue, but it certainly would not hurt for the weather to turn more adverse and threatening to production in a few areas to help drive the market interest. So far this year’s weather has been mostly good, but there are a few areas of interest out that that should be reviewed before the weekend begins. The following is a short compilation of world soil moisture snapshots with a brief comment regarding what should happen next.

Severe Weather Threat Rises for Central, East U.S. Next Week

Kansas City, May 30 (World Weather Inc.) – Drier- and much-warmer weather slated for the central and eastern United States this weekend into early next week will be a welcome change after frequent precipitation and cooler-than-usual weather of late. However, the warmup will pull moisture out of the soil and place it in the atmosphere which is likely to destabilize because of the warmer environment. Warm and moist air rising across the Great Plains and Midwest will be displaced by cooler and drier air coming out of Canada during mid-week next week. As these two distinctly different air masses collide the odds are great that strong to severe thunderstorms will evolve in many areas from the Great Plains through the Midwest and mid-south regions. Hail, damaging wind, possible tornadoes and heavy to torrential rainfall will result possibly inducing some damage to crops and property.