SINGAPORE: Early signs of hot, dry weather caused by El Nino are threatening food producers across Asia, while American growers are counting on heavier summer rains from the weather phenomenon to alleviate the impact of severe drought.
Early signs of hot, dry weather caused by El Nino are threatening food producers across Asia, while American growers are counting on heavier summer rains from the weather phenomenon to alleviate the impact of severe drought.
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iStock: Taglass Some private weather services are expecting a hot and dry July. David Tolleris, WxRisk.com, isn’t one of them. The weather models he watches and analyzes from Europe, the U.S., and Canada aren’t in complete agreement but they’re showing rain in much of the Corn Belt for the first half of this month. Tolleris expects a drier second half of the month, but not the hot temperatures currently to the west of the Corn Belt. “In order for that heat ridge to come east, we need that trough in the jet stream that’s over the Great Lakes and New England to go away. So far, that’s not happening,” he says.