![Global Crop Watch summary table](Slide1.JPG) Global
Crop Watch Summary, January 17, 2003.
Warm and dry weather favored Argentina, while
central Brazil was favored by rain. Drought returned to eastern
Australia. In the US, snow fell across the southern plains, the
southern Corn Belt, and the middle-to-southeast. While some rain
reached South Africa's corn belt, the moisture situation remains guarded.
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![South Africa vegetation comparison map](Slide2.JPG)
Northwestern Africa - A Good Start To The Growing Season. Rainfall
so-far during January has been frequent and plentiful for Morocco's winter
grains. Tunisia and Algeria, which were becoming too dry, received
widespread and heavy rainfall this week.
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![Northwest Africa - Weekly Precipitation](Slide3.JPG)
Northwestern Africa. Rainfall was widespread across
Northwestern Africa, easing dryness across Algeria and Tunisia, as well as,
maintaining very good winter grain conditions across Morocco.
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![Australia Sorghum Area Map](Slide4.JPG)
Australia - Sorghum Growing Area Map. Most of Australia's Sorghum
production is from Queensland and north central New South Wales.
Planting usually winds down by mid-January.
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![Australia - Cumulative Precipitation for the 7 days Ending January 16.](Slide5.JPG)
Australia - Cumulative Precipitation for the 7 days ending January 16,
2003. After receiving much needed rain across Queensland and New South
Wales, dry and hot weather returned to eastern Australia's major summer crop
growing areas.
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Australia - January Cumulative Precipitation through mid-month.
This map of rainfall during the first 16 days of January, 2003, shows the
heavy and beneficial rain that fell during the first nine days of January
across southern Queensland and northern New South Wales.
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![Europe & Asia - Snow Cover Map - January 15, 2003](Slide7.JPG)
Europe & Asia Snow Cover Map - January 15, 2003. This map
shows the heavy snow cover protecting winter grains across Ukraine and
western Russia. Note that the North China Plain is devoid of
protective snow.
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![North America Snow Cover Map - January 15, 2003.](Slide8.JPG)
North America Snow Cover - January 15, 2003. This map is a snap shot of
snow cover before the widespread snow of January 16 and 17. Some
snow fell across Kansas and Nebraska, during these days and more is expected
for this weekend. Heavier snow fell across Tennessee and the southern
Corn Belt.
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United States - 7 Day Cumulative Precipitation Map for the week ending
January 15, 2003. Heavy precipitation continued across N.
California and the Pacific Northwest. Texas was also moist.
Heavy "lake affect" snow occurred across New York and New England. The
snow of January 16 and 17, across the southern plains, the southern Corn
Belt, and the southeast, is not shown on this map.
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