The weather pattern late last week provided conditions which spurred some higher cooling demand in pockets around the US, but overall demand requirements were close to normal. This week, the placement of a ridge in the east combined with the Bermuda High will produce warmer than normal temperatures across much of the eastern and northcentral US, [...]

Highlights:

 •The end of last week signaled the start to an extended warm spell that will dictate the pattern in much of Argentina over the next two weeks. While the current week will be warm, the more extreme heat is looking to move into the region next week. •
The chart below shows daily high temperatures and change from [...]

Weather Trends now offers a CDD/HDD planner for the major energy demand centers in the US.  The 1 page report is a daily degree day forecast (CDD in cooling season/HDD in heating season) for the US, and is issued every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.  This low cost energy demand snapshot is a very useful tool for [...]

A few weeks back in our weekly grains report, we estimated corn yields to be 6-11% below trend (7-year) and soybean yields to be 5-9% below trend, and in addition, highlighted the significant reduced potential for the corn crop. The weather over the last three weeks has done nothing to help, and the estimates now for [...]