Weather outlook

Regional compound-stress detail · crop year 2025/2026 · stage Flowering & Grain Fill · 2026-07-10

What this shows
The compound stress score aggregates weather deviation across the wheat growth cycle for each DEFRA region, against the long-run regional baseline. Positive = worse than baseline. It's the headline weather feature behind today's call.

Compound stress by region

Region Compound stress Stressed stages
West Midlands+3.1 ←1
Wales+2.5 ←1
South West+2.0 ←1
North West & Merseyside+1.6 ←1
East Midlands+1.6 ←1
North East+0.80
South East & London+0.7 ←1
Northern Ireland+0.1 ←1
Scotland-0.20
Eastern-0.4 ←1
Yorkshire & The Humber-0.50

← marks regions with one or more stages flagged stressed.

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