Agrometeorology: agricultural drought is getting worse

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According to the analysis, in the past week, only on Monday and Tuesday, there has been some rain in the country, and in most parts of the country there has been no significant rain since May 21-23. The total precipitation in the past 30 days is 20-60 millimeters below the multi-year average, and the 90-day deficit is mostly between 30-90 millimeters. The upper 50-centimeter layer of the soil is critically dry practically throughout the country, and the upper one-meter layer of soil lacks 80-120 millimeters of precipitation, with the soil wetter only in the Alpine foothills. The drought has intensified further, and a severe agricultural drought is currently being experienced in most parts of Hungary. The temperature of the past week was reported to have increased by the end of the week, then dropped from peak values ​​of around 30 degrees Celsius to 25 degrees by the beginning of the week.

Autumn sowings suffered from the lack of precipitation in May and June, and entered the ripening phase earlier than usual, and the harvest of autumn barley has already begun in many places

Rapeseed is in the seed formation phase, wheat is in the milky and waxy ripening phase. Maize and sunflower crops are also being severely affected by the lack of precipitation. The latest vegetation index value for the end of May and beginning of June, which shows the “greenness” of the surface, decreased in most parts of the country due to the lack of precipitation. The vegetation that is more developed than average, which is typical of the whole spring, is only characteristic of Transdanubia, while there is already a lag in the eastern part of the country, which is the effect of the drought. According to the forecast, the drought will continue in the next 8-10 days. No significant precipitation is expected, the soils will dry out even more. Basically, summer heat is expected, and next week, daily maximum temperatures are expected to be above 30 degrees.

MTI