General Comments The definition of drought is a lengthy period of abnormally dry weather. A drought does not mean the total absence of precipitation. The overnight weather models added the chance of some rain for mid-next week for Argentina and southern Brazil. The midday model reduced the amount of precipitation and limited the coverage to portions of eastern and northern Argentina, and it pretty much withdrew rain chances from much of southern Brazil. Meanwhile, the region will face some hot temperatures during the next few days. We are certainly not meteorologists, but it does seem that rain events, if they do develop, remain isolated blips in an otherwise dry outlook that now looks as though it might persist through most of January.M...