Areas of heavy rain are in the GFS ENS 15-day outlook for Australia. The northeast coast is wettest with some of that (tropical) rain entrained into a potent upper-level low-pressure area in Central Australia in the 6-10-day period. Another storm may strike the West Coast in the 11-15-day period.

Close monitoring of forecasts across Brazil as we follow the progress of their second corn crop and also the historic dryness already in-place in the U.S. including California, Texas and Montana and the likely intensification ahead as summer 2022 approaches.

A new squall line is forecast to develop mid-afternoon today in central Pennsylvania to northeast West Virginia and shift eastward and intensify bringing flash flood rainfall and a possible tornado to Maryland and south/east Pennsylvania.