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The Pacific Northwest region has been under near-constant bombardment by precipitation over the last couple of weeks. That continues on Friday before a drier trend develops for at least several days. The precipitation has been able to build up snowpack and reduce drought in the region quite significantly. Higher temperatures are flowing up through the Plains as arctic air continues to shift eastward through the country.

Arctic air through the weekend but a warmup next week and a hot and dry forecast in southern South America are the weather factors holding the markets attention Friday.

An upper-level impulse is meeting up with the arctic front moving through the Midsouth and is starting to produce wintry precipitation for the region. Some heavy snow and mixed precipitation will cause lots of hazards for those living there and then up through the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast tonight into Friday. The system will continue to push the arctic front south to the Gulf of Mexico while the cold continues to produce some dangerous wind chills in the Plains and Midwest.

The CoBank top executive acknowledges a growing focus on addressing climate change in a 2022 outlook statement.

Arctic air and a storm system along it for the Midsouth and dryness forecast in southern South America are the weather factors holding the markets attention Thursday.

There has been no significant change to the wetness across central and northern Brazil, and the dryness across Argentina and southern Brazil. That is a worrisome outlook for both areas.

The CoBank top executive acknowledges a growing focus on addressing climate change in a 2022 outlook statement.

Cold, arctic air continues to penetrate and push east across the U.S. on Thursday. That has induced a winter storm system in the Midsouth that will move through the mid-Atlantic tonight and the Northeast on Friday. The arctic air is not sticking around for very long and warmer air will move up through the Plains on Friday, with high temperatures rising 10 to 30 degrees from the high Thursday afternoon. That is ahead of another cold, arctic blast set to move through this weekend.

Arctic air will continue to push southeast, east of the Rockies this week, while dryness forecast in southern South America are the weather factors holding the markets attention on Wednesday.

A warmup is coming next week, but is it going to last? Looking at large-scale patterns and indices can give us a clue as to what the long-range future holds.