Agrometeorology: nighttime ground frosts are returning
Temperatures corresponding to the first half of April will remain, and at night, weak frosts will threaten the fruit harvest in the frost-prone areas, HungaroMet Zrt. wrote in its agrometeorological analysis on Thursday.
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According to this analysis, a strong cold front reached Hungary during the night from Monday to Tuesday, which put an end to the summer-like hot, dry weather of the previous three weeks. In the first half of the week, the precipitation typically fell between 5 and 15 millimeters, which somewhat reduced the precipitation deficit. The upper 20 centimeter layer of the soil – which was already critically dry throughout the country by the weekend – has now become wet in many places, and the moisture has also reached the middle soil layer in most parts of the country.
The autumn crops are still in good condition, they are two or three weeks ahead of normal in their development
The ears of corn are growing intensively, and the autumn cabbage-rape is blooming. The cooler weather has been good for agriculture, because these development phases are no longer shortened due to the unusual heat. The precipitation that came with the cooling down was especially needed by the germinating sunflowers and corn that were just being sorted out. Most of the fruit trees have already blossomed, the beginnings of fruiting and growing crops are threatened by weak frosts in the following nights, they wrote.
According to the forecast, changeable, cool weather is still expected
Significant precipitation affecting a large area is unlikely in the week ahead. The temperature is below the usual values, during the day the air typically warms to between 11 and 16 degrees, and at night the temperature drops to only between 0 and 5 degrees.
MTI
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