The current El Niño weather pattern could be shifting quickly to the La Niña weather pattern later this year. Senior agriculture meteorologist for MDA Weather Services Kyle Tapley told AgWeb this week that weather models “now show full-fledged La Niña conditions by the summer.” Recent weather models show El Niño heading towards a “rapid decay” this spring with the La Niña weather event quickly following. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, says the chances of La Niña increase to 40 percent between August and October this year. La Niña typically brings hotter and dryer weather to North America during the summer months. That would mean potential crop development problems for corn, soybeans and wheat in the United States and dryer conditions for Argentina and Brazil’s corn and soybean crops.
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