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Allen Motew

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Director of QTWeather for 15 years at the beautiful Chicago Board of Trade building. "AI" the new employee. Bye, Bye! Still tweeting though. Join us.

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Allen Motew
2 years
WOW! Rest of this month shows potentially 5-8 inch totals parts of Paraguay, C South Brazil and even over C Argentina! Stay tuned. Big time soaking (not for all) across Brazil, Argentina and portions of Uruguay and Paraguay the next 2 weeks!
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Allen Motew
2 years
Bye, Bye La Niña. Enuf is enuf!
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2 years
Mother Nature taketh and giveth. The next 16 days across Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and S Brazil. Glorious at times flooding rainfall. Stay tuned. Lets see if modeling stays consistent. Never in stone but nice to see this from the models! Can’t rain everywhere so pick your spot
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Allen Motew
5 months
The next 2 weeks. Argentina gets what it needs but has to wait a while!
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Allen Motew
1 year
Say bye bye to La Niña. Neutral Enson then El Niño in July????
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Allen Motew
2 years
Not only in S Plains of the U.S. but drought country in Argentina to see glorious rainfall end of this month. 16 day output for Argentina is delightful. Ahh….Mother Nature!
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Allen Motew
2 years
Hot, hot, hot and dry too!
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Allen Motew
2 years
Rains leave….heat arrives. The week ahead.
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Allen Motew
9 months
How dry Brazil, how wet Argentina? All eyes soon on S America as Argentina crops rebound and Brazil "issues" seen. Potentially. NMME seasonal anomalies for heart of growing season precipitation over S. America.
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Allen Motew
7 months
El Nino quickly to La Nina? You think?
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Allen Motew
4 months
Here comes La Nina. Not if but when and how strong?
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Allen Motew
6 months
Hey Argentina... What's up?
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Allen Motew
5 months
El Nino quickly departing.
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Allen Motew
2 years
Another wet forecast for almost all of Argentina (holes?) for the next 2 weeks. Glorious rains as La Niña peaks. NICE!
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Allen Motew
1 year
Some damage suspected. They can’t catch a break across key Argentine crop regions. Coldest field temps sub-freezing. 0 to -2C for isolated coldest spots Saturday morning.
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Allen Motew
2 years
Peaking La Niña and this precip the next 9 days from morning global output. All eyes on South America (for the next 4 months!).
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Allen Motew
1 year
Argentine downpours. 3 major events the next 15 days.
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Allen Motew
2 years
Uruguay Soybean Production
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Allen Motew
4 months
La Nina watch is on...
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Allen Motew
1 year
From La Niña to El Niño. Stay tuned. It’s happening!
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Allen Motew
1 year
Bye, bye La Niña. Up, Up and away. Big changes on the way!
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Allen Motew
7 months
New NMME for Dec-Jan-Feb, 3 category precip probabilities for South America. NEW!
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Allen Motew
5 months
One extreme to the other. This evening's global output for Argentina region rainfall over the nexgt 16 days. WOW!
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Allen Motew
1 year
Drought to flooding in Argentina/Uruguay? The next 16 days. Will this happen for some of the region?
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Allen Motew
2 years
Argentine rains for the next 48 hours. All or nothing!
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Allen Motew
5 months
Argentine and Uruguay? rains return for the first 2 days of February.
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Allen Motew
5 months
Vegetation Health Index Argentina. This year and last.
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Allen Motew
2 years
WOW. Weekend rains may not disappoint. 1-3 inches on the way???? Shift from earlier modeling. Important if happens this way.
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Allen Motew
1 year
Afternoon global. Amazing if occurs. Again….Argentina may be on a roll the next 16 days.
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Allen Motew
2 years
Today through the weekend. The next 5 days from overnight global output. More, More, More for much of Argentina. WONDERFUL!
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Allen Motew
2 years
Goodbye La Niña.
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Allen Motew
2 years
System #3 in 2 weeks. HOPE!
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Allen Motew
2 years
Drought severity across Argentina going into Oct.
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Allen Motew
1 year
Argentina/uruguay. Bye, bye La Niña and now this? Flooding?
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Allen Motew
2 years
Holiday hope for Argentina. The next two weeks from afternoon global.
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Allen Motew
2 years
Important rains Buenos Aires, Uruguay and portions of Entire Rios of .50+ inches week #2 ? Days 8-15 from now? Note much less Central Argentina of 0-.45 inches next 16 days. Hopefully fills in better than this. More for S Brazil. Plenty!
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Allen Motew
1 year
Bye, Bye La Niña.
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Allen Motew
7 months
WOW! Strong La Nina by end of Summer, 2024? Stay tuned. It's never easy and especially with the climate extremes showing more often.
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Allen Motew
1 year
Here we go….Next stop El Niño. All aboard.
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Allen Motew
2 years
Rio Grande do Sul and S Brazil/Paraguay from today’s global output has some large accumulations mainly week #2 into start of November. WOW! La Niña or not!
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Allen Motew
3 years
4 potential systems and these accumulations rest of month? Cooler and stormy every 2-4 days.
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Allen Motew
10 months
Troubling dry early look at El Niño winter across Brazil and plentifully wet (flooding?) across Argentina? Stay tuned.
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Allen Motew
1 year
The next 2 weeks. YIKES! Latest global.
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Allen Motew
1 year
Goodbye La Niña. Hello El Niño. By Summer? Super El Niño?
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Allen Motew
2 years
Argentine rains the next 7 days. Keep it coming. Still many miss or are sub-par. Week 2 some but not much expected! Hotter than normal has returned.
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Allen Motew
1 year
So long La Niña. El Niño by Fall?
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Allen Motew
6 months
New NMME for expected January anomaly across S America. El Nino peaking too. Did not expect this!
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Allen Motew
3 months
La Nina is coming...like it or not! Arrives from some consistent modeling with 62% liklihood (NOAA CPC recently) June onward. How strong is the question and as it often has an effect on Atlantic Hurricanes the question also becomes how tough an Atlantic Hurricane season?
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Allen Motew
4 years
Glorious rains for Argentina and Brazil (except Northeast) next 16 days. Finally!
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Allen Motew
2 years
Stay tuned! The next 6 days. Some 3-4+ inches for key areas. WOW! New global output.
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Allen Motew
2 years
New modeling has some glorious downpours of 1-3+ inches for parts of Argentina. 25% miss out over much of the action over the next 2 days. Another freeze on the way?
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Allen Motew
3 months
Worse and worse. This modeling keeps expanding the U.S. Summer dryness outlook. Now includes into S Canadian Prairie?
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Allen Motew
2 months
Are we starting to see a shift in the intensity of zone 3.4 cooling this Summer from CFSv2 members? Note blue lines and "latest 8 forecast members). La Nina....? Hmmm...
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Allen Motew
5 months
The haves and have nots across Argentina upcoming. 2nd storm really dumps? The next 2 weeks.
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Allen Motew
2 years
Argentine wheat needs a soaking. Not going to get?
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Allen Motew
1 year
Bye Bye La Niña!
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Allen Motew
1 year
Amazing! The next 2 weeks?
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Allen Motew
1 year
Heat and storms…heat and storms. The next 2 weeks in Argentina.
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Allen Motew
2 years
This map keeps sticking in my mind. A week ago….Large areas of Argentine vegetation in tough shape compared to last year particularly and Center-west Brazil too! Hmmm.
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Allen Motew
2 years
Some flooding totals? Days 7-12 more? 4-6 inch 12 day totals for C Argentina. Not for all though!
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Allen Motew
2 years
Leaving La Niña? Zone 3.4 Water temps most anomalous currently.. La Niña gone by Spring? Some recent modeling thinks so.
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Allen Motew
2 years
Can we wait? Wet pattern for many returns in 10-15 days.
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Allen Motew
1 year
The next 7 days.
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Allen Motew
2 years
The next 10 days. North vs South in Argentina? Heat to remain. Uruguay gets stormy.
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Allen Motew
1 year
Argentina drought at start of the month.
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Allen Motew
2 years
Seasonal NMME precip for S America. New. Bye, bye La Niña.
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Allen Motew
8 months
the haves and have nots for S America El Nino growing season. Stay tuned. talk about extremes... Dec-Feb. It's never easy!
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Allen Motew
2 years
Will this happen or not? Today until mid-month across South America. Soaking (2 systems a week from now?) across C Argentina. Plenty into SE Brazil too.
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Allen Motew
2 years
Tomorrow. Important rains for C Argentina? Many miss out?
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Allen Motew
1 year
How bad the 3 month precip drought in Argentina. Now, this weekend record cold event of modern times for February hit. Dry ground more susceptible to cold may have accentuated radiational cooling too. What a growing season in summary and for some a long way to go yet. Stay tuned.
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Allen Motew
2 years
Summer arrives in Argentina. Heat and storms a week from today. NICE!
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Allen Motew
1 year
Week 2 for Argentina brings the best rains in a long while for some. Too late for most! Variably better crop areas to love though!
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Allen Motew
1 year
Bad day yesterday. Hot and dry for Argentina.
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Allen Motew
3 months
How strong of a La Nina by Fall? What kind of Atlantic Hurricane Season will we have?
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Allen Motew
1 year
Super El Niño by Fall?
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Allen Motew
2 years
Crucial rains return after week of drying and some heat for Days 8-10. Front across C Argentina shown with some 3+ inch amounts. Stay tuned!
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Allen Motew
6 months
Vegetation Health Change from last year.
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Allen Motew
3 months
La Nina when and how strong?
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Allen Motew
1 year
How quickly El Niño? Here before we know it?
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Allen Motew
1 year
Hold on….it’s coming! Morning global for the next 10 days. Trend is Argentina’s friend?
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Allen Motew
5 months
Eyes on Argentina. Dry period has started.
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Allen Motew
2 years
Just a matter of time. Goodbye La Niña!
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Allen Motew
8 months
El Nino takes hold. Nov-Jan precip anomaly for S America from new NMME today!
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Allen Motew
2 years
Much to watch over Argentina. Storms, storms and more storms. Stay tuned. The next 10-14 days plenty of action. Holes of course!
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Allen Motew
2 months
More, more, more and more. It just keeps coming.
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Allen Motew
2 years
Flooding rains into C Argentina with rains 8+ days from now into S Brazil/Paraguay. Rains slow to show as the action stays confined to Argentina. Stay tuned amazing turn around in moisture fortune for Argentina starting late Saturday and lasting more than 10 days!
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Allen Motew
3 months
What say you La Nina? How strong by Fall?
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Allen Motew
5 months
Upside down.
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7 months
The next 2 weeks cross South America. In mm.
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7 months
Brazil vegetation health index this year (left) and last year (right).
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Allen Motew
1 year
More, more, more for much of Argentina into early April.
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Allen Motew
3 months
Not if but when and how strong? La Nina.
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Allen Motew
3 years
Interesting...
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Allen Motew
2 years
The next 16 days. Hoping for the best. Hoping for some!
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Allen Motew
5 months
Latest soil moisture profile from Argentina. Core central tough week ahead with some heat and drying. Rest of February...stay tuned.
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Allen Motew
1 year
The next 10 days from today’s morning global output. Heat wave and very little moisture Argentina.
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Allen Motew
3 years
WOW! Modeling keeps getting wetter and wetter for Argentina. Now has large area seeing 3+ inches by mid-month. Some to see 6+?
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Allen Motew
1 year
Damage done in Argentina! Too late for many there and not in stone for next 2 weeks (latest global forecast this morning). Recovery for S Brazil and Paraguay? Rio Grande do Sul the big winner? N Argentina the big winner? Stay tuned but damage done. Too late and still too little?
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Allen Motew
1 year
Downpours indicated days 8-10 Argentina from evening global output. You think?
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Allen Motew
4 months
Too much for some in Argentina...flooding? The next 16 days from today's global.
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