WINTER WILL BRING ABOVE-AVERAGE TEMPERATURES ACROSS BRAZIL.

Brazil enters winter on June 21 with Inmet forecasting above-average temperatures nationwide and a strong El Niño during the July-September quarter. Rainfall is expected below normal across most of the North and Northeast, near average in the Midwest and parts of the Southeast, and above average in the South, where accumulations may exceed historical levels by up to 100 mm in Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina. Frost is likely in the South, Southeast, and Mato Grosso do Sul, with possible snowfall in southern highlands. APCC projects a 100% probability of El Niño and a 99.4% probability of a strong event. For agriculture, drier conditions should support second-crop corn, cotton, sugarcane, coffee harvesting, and winter crops, but increase water stress, pasture degradation, wildfire risk, and disease pressure in wetter southern areas.
Source: Revista Cultivar