JRC MARS Bulletin - Crop monitoring in Europe - December 2020 - Vol. 28 No 12
Warmest autumn in eastern and northern Europe
According to the December issue of the JRC MARS Bulletin - Crop monitoring in Europe – in most agricultural regions of eastern and northern Europe, autumn 2020 was the warmest on the MARS records.
November was the second warmest November in most of Europe.
As a consequence of the prevailing mild conditions, the build-up of frost tolerance in winter wheat started much later than usual, and remains weak in most of western, southern, central and south-eastern Europe.
Areas where winter crops are underdeveloped as a consequence of delayed sowing - as is the case in large parts of eastern Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania - are particularly vulnerable.
Localised and minor frost-kill events are expected to have occurred already in northern Romania, due to a cold air intrusion at the end of November and the beginning of December.
More widespread minor to moderate frost-kill events are likely to have occurred in the Volga okrug of European Russia.
BUSSAY Attila;
CEGLAR Andrej;
CERRANI Iacopo;
SEGUINI Lorenzo;
PANARELLO Lorenzo;
TORETI Andrea;
VAN DEN BERG Maurits;
ZUCCHINI Antonio;
BIAVETTI Irene;
MULHERN Grainne;
VAN DEN BERG Maurits;
2021-02-15
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC120749
2443-8278 (online),
2443-826X (print),
OP KJ-AW-20-012-EN-N (online),
OP KJ-AW-20-012-EN-C (print),
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