According to the December issue of the JRC MARS Bulletin - Crop monitoring in Europe – which was published on Monday, in most agricultural regions of eastern and northern Europe, autumn 2020 was the warmest on the MARS records.
November was the second warmest November in most of Europe.
As a consequence of the prevailing mild conditions, the build-up of frost tolerance in winter wheat started much later than usual, and remains weak in most of western, southern, central and south-eastern Europe.
Areas where winter crops are underdeveloped as a consequence of delayed sowing - as is the case in large parts of eastern Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania - are particularly vulnerable.
Localised and minor frost-kill events are expected to have occurred already in northern Romania, due to a cold air intrusion at the end of November and the beginning of December.
More widespread minor to moderate frost-kill events are likely to have occurred in the Volga okrug of European Russia.
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- Data tal-pubblikazzjoni
- 16 Diċembru 2020