Drew Lerner, Author at World Weather

Russia’s New Lands In Need Of Drier Weather

Kansas City, August 22 (World Weather Inc.) – Russia’s New Lands and Ural Mountains region into northern Kazakhstan trended wetter or much wetter than normal during the past month. The moisture has been beneficial for aggressive wheat, sunseed, and other grain and oilseed growth. However, many fields are saturated and the need for drier weather is increasing as crops get ready to mature. Additional rain in the coming weeks may impact quality and maturation rates. While the Ural Mountains region will dry down during the coming week the eastern New Lands and northern Kazakhstan will receive more rain. Concerns over potential quality declines will further increase in the wettest fields.

West Africa Coffee, Cocoa Areas Will See Increased Rainfall

Kansas City, August 22 (World Weather Inc.) – Several production areas in west-central Africa were drier or much drier than normal during the past month. While August rainfall tends to trend a little lower compared to earlier in the summer and later in the autumn, the lower than usual rainfall has some producers concerned over a reduction in yield for some coffee, cocoa, sugarcane and rice produced in the region. More frequent rainfall is slated for the region during the coming week with timely rain expected to continue during the last few days of August and early September. The environment will slowly improve for late-season development of the early crops and for flowering of the mid-season crops.

Excessive Southern U.S. Plains Heat To Expand North, East

Kansas City, August 22 (World Weather Inc.) – A long week of excessive heat has occurred in the southern half of the U.S. Plains this week. Daily high temperatures of 95 to 110 Fahrenheit occurred nearly every day since the end of last week in Texas and Oklahoma with extremes of 111 to 117 in southern Oklahoma and areas south into central Texas. The heat will remain in the southern Plains today and Friday, but a building ridge of high pressure aloft this weekend and early next week will expand the heat into the central Plains and the southwestern Corn and Soybean Belt before moderating and spreading to the east through the lower Midwest, Delta and Tennessee River Basin. The heat and high relative humidity will induce a very stressful environment for all living things. Some partial relief is expected next week with scattered rain, but Texas to the southeastern states may stay dry into the U.S. Labor Day holiday weekend.