Agrometeorology: Rainy weather continues, soils are replenished

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According to the analysis, the weather in the past week has been changeable, with frequent rainfall, and milder than usual at this time of year. In the past ten days, precipitation has mostly been between 10 and 35 millimeters, most of it in the Great Plain region, where it was needed the most. The precipitation did not arrive all at once, but slowly, distributedly, and the snowmelt is also slow, so the moisture has time to seep into the soil. The thirty-day precipitation total in the northwestern part of the country is 5-10 millimeters less than the multi-year average, while in most of the country it fell 5-30 millimeters more than usual at this time. However, there is a deficit in the precipitation amount of the past 90 days in most of the country, which reaches 20-50 millimeters in the northwestern, central and northeastern parts of the country. In the southwest and northern parts of the country, the upper one-meter soil layer has reached a saturated or near-saturated state, but in the central part of the country and a significant part of the Tiszántúl region, 30-70 millimeters of moisture are still missing. In the central parts of the Great Plain, at least the upper one meter should be filled by spring so that there is reserve moisture for plants next summer. The temperature has been 1-2 degrees Celsius above normal for this time of year on average over the past week, with maximums mostly slightly above freezing, but last Thursday and this week’s Wednesday in the southern part of the country around 10 degrees. There have been several frost-free nights.

Rapeseed and winter cereals are in a dormant state

In the severe cold typical of the first weeks of the year, the snow cover was favorable for them, protecting the plants from frost damage, and then the moisture slowly seeped into the soil. The forced dormancy of the fruit trees has not been disturbed by excessively mild weather so far. According to the forecast, the very changeable, frequently rainy weather will remain. The weather will be mild until the end of the week, then at the beginning of next week cold air will seep into the Carpathian Basin from the northeast, night frosts will return, but temperatures below minus 5 degrees should not be expected. Relief will come again in the middle of next week. Rain is also coming in several waves and overall, a large area could see more than 10 millimeters of rain by the middle of next week.

MTI