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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released another report, which highlights that rains have returned across northern Europe, easing concerns about drought and improving prospects for spring grains and summer crops. The extended period of high pressure that dominated the continent's weather for the last month has finally dissipated, allowing much-needed showers and thunderstorms (10-90mm) to return to England, central and northern France, Belgium, Germany and western Poland.
Although moisture arrived too late to benefit winter grains and oilseeds that were already maturing, it is likely that winter (late-year) crops developing later in eastern growing areas have seen their yield prospects improve. . Rain was lighter (2-25 mm), although still beneficial for winter wheat and canola in fill in northeastern Poland, Scandinavia and the Baltic States.
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On the other hand, moderate to heavy rains and storms (10-100 mm, locally more) in northern Spain, southwestern France, Hungary and the lower Danube river valley maintained favorable conditions for summer crops approaching breeding. , but caused local flash flooding.
Dry weather has returned across most of Italy, providing relief from recent rains and facilitating the development of summer crops. Dry conditions have also established themselves in southwestern Iberia, where recent heavy rains provide relief from long-term drought, improve reservoir levels and increase irrigation supplies.
Temperatures in Europe averaged 2 to 5°C above normal almost everywhere except Greece (close to normal temperatures), accelerating the maturation of winter crops in the north and pushing summer crops to reproduction in the south . Despite the anomalous heat, extreme temperatures (35°C or more) were confined to southern Portugal, southwestern Spain and some isolated pockets in southern Hungary and the Balkans.
Source: Aline Merladete | agrolink
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