As you know from previous posts, El Niño can cause a variety of climate anomalies across the globe. A story today from AgWeb highlights the hot conditions in Brazil in recent weeks and its impacts on Brazil’s corn crop, which is often planted as a second crop behind soybeans.
In the map below of global El Niño effects, the increased temperature in El Niño years appears to be a factor in causing the severe heat, which has hit right at pollination time. Upward trends in average temperature are also contributing to the heat along with shorter-term weather patterns. You can read about it here.
