11-6 IAN El Nino

  A meteorologists take on long-term weather.  I am David Sparks...Bryce Anderson has been DTN's ag meteorologist and fill-in market analyst since 1991. He combines his expertise in weather forecasting with his background in farming to bring in-depth, focused commentary on the top weather developments affecting agriculture each day.In a recent conversation, he warned that soil in much of America is losing its water content. But he also has other concerns. Another issue is that what appeared to be the development of El Niño in the Pacific with warmer than normal water temperatures out around the Equater and atmospheric conditions that contribute to more sustained jet stream flow out of the Pacific and into places like Texas and Kansas and Missouri, that event has backed off now.   Water temperature is cooler, the atmosphere does not support that jet stream type of pattern, and the result is that what appeared to be a feature that might bring at least some moisture into the interior of the U.S. During this coming winter, may have actually reached its peak. That is another area of concern that we have right now.