Seed Today - Q1 2009 - (Page 45) La Niña Returns Forecasters anticipate another cold, wet spring for the Midwest Is the weather for the 2009 spring planting season shaping up to be a repeat of 2008? According to an analysis of what is happening to water temperatures in the South Pacific, be prepared for a second cold, wet spring. La Niña is already having a major impact on weather and the outlook for crops around the world, says Gary Drimmer, president, Drimmer & Associates International, in a January weather analysis. tinue into spring 2009.” Potential impacts include aboveaverage precipitation in the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys and below-average precipitation across the South, particularly in the southwestern and southeastern states. Other potential impacts, according to the CPC, include below-average temperatures in the Pacific Northwest and above-average temperatures across much of the southern United States. Eastern Pacific Ocean clouds The United States is already seeing the impact of La Niña with the heavy snow and cold weather in the Northern Plains and Midwest, Drimmer says. Texas, Georgia and the Carolinas are seeing the continuation of the two-year drought. Drimmer says it is too early to project how severe or how long the La Niña will last, but most farmers have vivid memories of what she did in 2008. “The United States should be planting more soybeans as a result of the poor crops in South America and high input costs for corn production,” he says. A January announcement from the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC) says, “Developing La Niña conditions are likely to conNational Weather Service Climate Prediction Center Weather prediction maps for everything from a six-to-ten-day outlook to a 12 month extended forecast are available at the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center web site www.cpc.noaa.gov Response No. 451 First Quarter 2009 45 http://www.cpc.noaa.gov
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