Drew Lerner, Author at World Weather

Livestock, Crop Stress To Climb In U.S., Western Europe

Kansas City, July 24 (World Weather Inc.) – July has already been a tough month on agriculture in North America and western Europe and this is expected to continue through the coming week. Waves of heat and some notable dryness have evolved in portions of both continents raising the potential for “some” notable declines in production for “some” grain, oilseeds, sugarbeets and livestock weight grains. Europe dryness has been much more prolonged than that in portions of the U.S. and as for Canada, much of the early spring was marred by excessive rain and cool weather rather than heat and dryness.

Tropical Storm Noul Could Damage South China Rice, Sugarcane

Kansas City, July 24 (World Weather Inc.) – Tropical Storm Noul recently evolved over the western Pacific Ocean and was tracking just north of Luzon Island, Philippines earlier this morning. The disturbance will reach southern China late Saturday and will potentially intensify into a typhoon ahead of landfall. Torrential rain and damaging wind are slated for portions of Guangdong, eastern Guangxi, and neighboring areas this weekend and early Monday before the disturbance dissipates. Damage to rice, sugarcane, and other crops produced in the region will be possible. Another weak disturbance could promote heavy rain in pockets of southern China late Monday into the middle of next week. Other locations in China will see a good mix of rain and sunshine through the end of next week. Crop conditions will be relatively favorable outside the driest areas in eastern Sichuan and immediate neighboring locations.

India West Coast July Rain Incredible, But Not A Record

Kansas City, July 15 (World Weather Inc.) – An amazing amount of rain has fallen along the central west coast of India so far this month. Mahabaleshwar, a city located along the central Maharashtra coast, reported 2636 millimeters of rain for the first 24 days of July. That translates into 103.77 inches or more than 8 feet of water in just a little more than three weeks.
The town of Umargam, along the Gujarat/Maharashtra border near the coast, reported 1064 millimeters of rain in a single 24-hour period ending Thursday. That was 41.89 inches of rain and was the third greatest 24-hour rain total ever reported in India
Flooding has been quite serious at times along the central west coast of India with heavy rain occurring from western Karnataka and northern Kerala to the southern Gujarat coast. The greater rain amounts occurred mostly in western Maharashtra where few areas reported less 861 millimeters (33.9 inches) of rain this month and most were reporting totals of 1600 to more than 2600 millimeters (63-102 inches).