Tag: weather

After a short respite from high temperatures, the Salinas Valley will once again experience a heatwave starting Thursday, July 14 and continuing through the middle of next week.

The unseasonably hot temperatures currently being recorded in California’s Salinas Valley and other West Coast growing regions are raising serious concerns at Markon Cooperative over quality and shelf-life for many key fruit and vegetable crops.

The Arizona/California desert region has dealt with volatile weather much of this winter, and it has continued into spring, causing prices to spike.

Markon Cooperative reports the Arizona/California desert growing region is experiencing temperatures in the upper 20°s to mid-30°s this morning, causing widespread lettuce ice to form on lettuce and desert row crop items.

The North American winter season has been relatively mild thus far. That was until mother nature decided to remind us all who’s in charge by freezing the sunshine state and hurling a bomb cyclone up the East Coast. New York City received more than 10 inches of snow, and areas of Massachusetts reported 30 inches.

Below freezing temperatures hit the Arizona/California desert growing region again this week, which will cause production delays.

The continuing low temperatures in the California and Arizona desert growing regions will start to increase prices soon.

Although Mexico’s dry Western region needs rain, growers are wary of damage typically caused by a violent storm like Pamela.

While growing regions in the West have battled ferocious heat and drought throughout the summer, it’s the East Coast’s turn to navigate the challenges that come with turbulent weather.

With the record high temperatures in the Pacific Northwest, many retailers have pulled perishables from shelves because the cooling units can’t keep up.