The winter crop growing in the Middle East countries are more dependent on meteorological conditions than summer crops. The meteorological conditions for winter crop growing season since 1985 up to now were analyzed. The analysis was done based on the MARS-FOOD archive of meteorological data. The archive contains dekadal meteorological parameters for one degree grid points, which were derived from the global meteorological model of ECMWF (UK). The climatic water balance was used as the main integrated crop growth indicator for this study. As a result it was found that the meteorological situation improved for winter crops than 15-20 years ago within the main crop production areas. The climatic potential productivity shows positive trend, which should lead to higher yield of winter crops in many of the Middle East countries.