WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR JULY 18, 2025
Cold air in the far eastern Russia New Lands early next week may result in some frost in sunseed and spring wheat production areasSouthern China may be impacted by a tropical cyclone this weekend with heavy rain, local flooding and some strong wind speeds likely in Guangdong, Guangxi and HainanThere is some potential for the storm to also impact northern Vietnam early next weekEast-central China will not get much rain through the coming week and some drying and rising crop stress is possible in pockets, but no widespread production threat is expectedNOT MUCH CHANGE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WORLDSome needed rain will fall in Western Europe this weekend and early next week offering some relief to dryness in parts of France, the U.K., Germany, Belgium and Netherlands, although more rain will still be neededDryness will remain in the lower Danube River BasinNot much rain from eastern Ukraine into Kazakhstan during the next two weeks which may lead to unirrigated summer crop stress, but winter crop harvesting will advance wellDry weather has been occurring and will continue for at least another week in western Indonesia and the Malay PeninsulaSome drying is normal at this time of year and showers may return in the last days of July for parts of the regionCentral Thailand rainfall may continue lighter than usual as it has been recently and greater rain will soon be needed for rice, sugarcane and other cropsNorth America weather has not changed much overnightVery warm to hot temperatures are likely in the central and southern Plains, Delta, lower Midwest and interior southeastern states during the period from this weekend through the end of next weekHeat indices of 95 to 115 are likely with the central and southern Plains and Delta hottest stressing livestock and some cropsA westward shift in the heat and dryness is likely in the last days of July heating up most of the far western United States and allowing some cooling and rainfall back into the lower Midwest and southeastern statesNorthern and eastern Midwest crop areas will be sufficiently moist to carry on normal crop development during the next two weeksSome net drying is likely in the Delta portions of Missouri and eastern KansasCanada’s Prairies will be wettest in central and western Alberta and northwestern into south-central parts of Saskatchewan in the coming ten days while the northeastern part of the Prairies is drier biasedSome rain will fall in southern Manitoba as wellTexas, Oklahoma and Kansas heat and drying will expedite late wheat harvesting, but stress livestock and some unirrigated summer cropsWest Texas and the Texas Panhandle will get a few showers and thunderstorms briefly next weekS. Pacific Northwest will continue warm and dry biased for the next two weeksArgentina rainfall will be restricted for a whileSouthern Brazil will trend wetter from the middle of next week into late monthSafrinha crop harvesting in Brazil should advance well during the next ten days with little to no rain outside of Paraguay and ParanaIndia rainfall will be abundant and frequent except in parts of Gujarat, central Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu where more limited rainfall is likelyAustralia rainfall will continue greatest in coastal areas for the next ten days