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EUROPE: Widespread Rain Eases Drought In Spain
- Rain continues to provide a late boost to reproductive to filling wheat and barley in Spain.
- Showers improve prospects for winter and spring grains from England and France into Italy and the Balkans.
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NORTHWESTERN AFRICA: Additional Showers Benefit Winter Crops
- Light showers favor filling winter grains in Morocco but are too late for maturing crops.
- Locally heavy rain in Algeria and Tunisia benefits reproductive to filling winter wheat and barley.
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MIDDLE EAST: Showers Maintain Soil Moisture For Winter Grain Development
- Widespread showers slow cotton planting but favor winter crop growth from Turkey into western Iran.
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FSU: Western Rain Contrasts With Unseasonable Warmth And Dryness In The East
- Periods of rain across Belarus, Ukraine, and western Russia slow fieldwork but boost soil moisture for winter wheat, barley, and rapeseed.
- Unseasonably warm, dry weather favors field preparations for spring wheat planting in Kazakhstan and central Russia, but reduces topsoil moisture.
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SOUTH ASIA: Drier Weather Returns
- Seasonably dry weather returns to India, as cotton planting advances in the north.
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EAST ASIA: Rain Aids Winter And Spring Crop Development
- In China, showers continue to benefit reproductive winter wheat and rapeseed as well as early doublecrop rice.
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SOUTHEAST ASIA: Wet Weather Slows Harvesting
- Wet weather slows harvest activities from southern Vietnam into the southern Philippines, and south into Java, Indonesia.
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AUSTRALIA: Warm, Dry Weather Aids Summer Crop Harvesting
- In southern Queensland and northern New South Wales, relatively cool, showery weather is replaced by warmer, drier weather, allowing cotton and sorghum harvesting to regain momentum.
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SOUTH AMERICA: Rain Benefits Brazil’s Winter Corn Crop
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