Wetter than usual in large parts of Europe
The November issue of the JRC MARS Bulletin - Crop monitoring in Europe, published today, presents wetter-than-usual conditions in large parts of northern and western Europe for October and early November, while in the south east dry and warm weather persisted.
Frequent and abundant rainfall continued to delay field operations in France, Italy, Benelux countries, the British Isles, northern Germany, and southern Sweden over the period of review (1 October to 20 November 2019).
Rainfall was particularly intense in southern France and northern and central Italy.
While the sowing campaign of winter cereals has been practically completed in central Europe, some obstacles to sowing, emergence, and crop establishment in the field remain in the overly wet regions of western and northern Europe, as well as in Italy.
In Spain, Portugal and Greece, sowing has progressed fairly well.
By contrast, the central Balkan region, large parts of Turkey and Ukraine, the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula, and western Morocco experienced a lack of rainfall, with less than half the long-term average recorded.
Eastern and south-eastern Europe were also affected by extraordinarily warm weather.
These conditions hampered sowing and continue to affect crop establishment in southern Romania and northern Bulgaria.
BARUTH Bettina;
BASSU Simona;
BUSSAY Attila;
CEGLAR Andrej;
CERRANI Iacopo;
CHEMIN Yann;
DE PALMA Pierluca;
FUMAGALLI Davide;
LECERF Remi;
MANFRON Giacinto;
NISINI SCACCHIAFICHI Luigi;
PANARELLO Lorenzo;
RONCHETTI Giulia;
VAN DEN BERG Maurits;
ZAJAC Zuzanna;
ZUCCHINI Antonio;
BIAVETTI Irene;
BARUTH Bettina;
2020-01-24
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC119613
2443-8278 (online),
2443-826X (print),
OP KJ-AW-19-011-EN-N (online),
OP KJ-AW-19-011-EN-C (print),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC119613,
