A weak cold front passed through the south-eastern coffee belt over the weekend without changing the outlook for favourable dry harvesting weather this week, private forecaster Somar said Monday.
"Dry conditions will persist throughout the week," Somar predicted in a daily report.
Somar did say that a new cold front would bring rainy weather but no frost risk to coffee areas next weekend.
Brazil harvested an estimated 62 percent of its expected 41.3 million 60-kg bags crop by July 26, analysts Safras e Mercado said. The government estimates the crop at 38.3 million bags, up from 28.8 million bags last year.
Due to wet and cold weather since April, the harvest is well behind last year when 75 percent of the crop had been gathered by July 26.
Most coffee areas had between 46 and 130 percent more rain in July than the five-year average.
Parana state was wettest with 112 millimetre's (4.4 inches), or 46 percent above average.
The key southern Minas and Cerrado areas received between 32 and 44 millimetre's (1.25 and 1.73 inches), or 30 to 130 percent above normal.
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