WORLD WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR JULY 7, 2025
Flooding rain in central Texas was horrific in urban and some minor agricultural areas, but the impact on nationwide corn and sorghum production should be minimalTropical Storm Chantal’s heavy rain had no serious impact on crops in the eastern Carolinas or VirginiaNo other tropical cyclones are expected to threaten North America for at least the next week with the tropics calming downDrought continues serious in parts of Canada’s Prairies and that is not likely to change in this coming week with hot temperatures likely in west today and in central and eastern areas during mid-weekSome opportunity for rain will evolve next week, although southern and eastern Manitoba is most favoredS. weather is expected to remain very well mixed with timely rain and seasonable temperatures east of the Rocky MountainsDrought will remain in the U.S. Pacific NorthwestMonsoonal rain in Mexico will continue over the next ten days, but its intensity is expected to slacken a bit as the tropics quiet down for a whileEast-central and southeastern China is trending much drier and that will linger for another week before some partial relief is possibleCentral and eastern Inner Mongolia and China’s Northeast Provinces received welcome rain during the past few days maintaining good crop conditions for areas near and north of the Yellow River and throughout the northeastToo much rain is expected in central India over the next week to ten days resulting in some flooding and at least a little potential for replanting of some summer cropsCentral, northern and eastern India will remain wet biased through the next ten days while the interior west-central and south stay drier than usualThailand sugarcane, corn and rice areas will experience another week of restricted rain before rain chances improveCentral and northwestern Sumatra, Indonesia still needs greater rain along with a few areas in Peninsular MalaysiaToo much rain may fall from the Alps through Poland to parts of the Baltic States over the next ten days; flooding is possibleWestern and southern France, the U.K. and lower Danube River Basin will continue anomalously dry through the next ten daysWestern Europe will begin heating up again late this week and the warmer than usual conditions will last into next week while expanding to the eastRussia’s Southern Region, western Kazakhstan and eastern Ukraine will benefit greatly from dry biased weather supporting good winter crop maturation and harvest progressSouthern Australia received timely rain during the weekend and more is expected in the south which may improve soil conditions for winter crop establishment when warmer weather arrives in the springRain is likely in western wheat areas of Argentina which should induce improved soil moisture for better crop establishmentWestern Luzon Island experienced some flooding rain during the weekend from Typhoon Danas and more heavy rain will fall this weekTyphoon Danas also produced heavy rain in western Taiwan Sunday and will turn into southeastern China this week producing some heavy rainThe typhoon is small and its impact on agriculture is not likely to be tremendous