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Weather Trends Brazil rainfall verification
Author: Michael Ferrari, PhD VP, Applied Technology & Research Readers of this column should no doubt be aware of our bias towards the importance of India with respect to the amount of physical sugar that is available to the world market at any given time. We have stated numerous times that the ...
Weather Parade (II)
Weather wires are buzzing this morning with talk of Hurricane Earl, as they should be – this is a big system with a lot of energy. But don’t lose sight of what is following behind Earl. While Fiona looks to take a track farther to the east, the system in the central Atlantic has organized quit...
Weather Parade
As the high pushes to the east, Earl will have a nice path for a northward track up the Mid Atlantic coast. A lot of energy is coming off of West Africa right now, so expect a series of waves to follow Fiona.
Vail opening day – November 19th
It is that time of year again….while we are still in cooling season, forward-thinkers are starting to plan for winter. That includes ski resorts, and the number of inquiries has risen quite a bit from my lift-ticket seeking friends. Vail is set to open this season on November 19th. Our forecas...
Monsoon progress – 26 August
Author: Michael Ferrari, PhD VP, Applied Technology & Research The seasonal rainfall in the northern Indian sugarcane producing regions is still deficient, despite an improvement in the country weighted average (moving from -5% to -2% since last week). Rainfall over Uttar Pradesh has been consis...
MWO obs
check out the current obs for Mt. Washington Observatory…..I can’t wait for fall (& winter) weather!
Weekly Monsoon Update – 19 Aug
Author: Michael Ferrari, PhD VP, Applied Technology & Research As we have been discussing each week, the trend of favorable rains in the south but deficient rains in northern India continues. The weekly update from the Indian Met Dept is shown below which shows seasonal rainfall totals through A...
Western Australia needs water
Author: Michael Ferrari, PhD VP, Applied Technology & Research Wheat continues to dominate news in the grains/oilseeds space – this time the focus is Australia. Eastern Australia has benefited from a favorable patter over the last several months, but the western wheat belt has been stuck in a pe...
US dairy/feed update
Author: Michael Ferrari, PhD VP, Applied Technology & Research We have noted in the weekly US updates to our clients that July US milk production and yield numbers may need slight revision as a result of the heat event which occurred early in the month. Total seasonal numbers for the US and spec...
