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New Zealand Experienced Relatively Normal El Nino Conditions

Kansas City, March 8 (World Weather Inc.) – El Nino summers tend to support frequent rainfall in western sections of South Island and North Island while areas farther inland often experience limited rainfall. With El Nino in full swing over the summer, frequent rainfall helped bolster or keep soil moisture at adequate to excessive levels in western sections of the country. Eastern South Island and portions of southeastern and northern North Island missed out on the wet weather and moisture shortages lowly intensified. Western South Island will continue to see waves of rain through the end of next week while other locations dry down due to a lack of rain. New Zealand does produce some wheat and barley in the summer and production may be lower than usual due to dryness in portions of crop country.

Western Corn Belt Drought Will Likely Persist In March

Kansas City, March 8 (World Weather Inc.) – Drought and dryness of varying degrees of significance continues in portions of the U.S Midwest and as spring approaches the removal of drought will become more important especially if summer is going to have a drier and warmer than usual bias. Iowa is experiencing some of the more significant drought while several areas in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, and eastern Nebraska are also struggling with significant dryness. Abnormally dry conditions have started to spread across portions of the eastern Midwest as well. A disturbance will promote significant rainfall for portions of the eastern Corn Belt today into Saturday with some follow-up rain later next week. Rainfall will be enough to marginally bolster soil moisture and may eliminate abnormally dry conditions in several locations; however, the western Midwest will remain drier biased into the end of next week. Precipitation potentials will not improve significantly during the second week of the outlook. The need for timely rain will increase heading into late March and early April to support more favorable corn and soybean planting prospects.