JRC MARS Bulletin - Crop monitoring in Europe - April 2021 - Vol. 29 No 4
Limited impacts of cold spells on annual crops
Many parts of Europe experienced colder-than-usual temperatures during the period of review, with distinct cold spells around mid-March and in the first half of April. Minimum temperatures on the coldest days were among the lowest in our records in a large belt extending from Scotland to southern Italy and Greece. Temperatures during this period strongly contrasted with a warm weather anomaly at the end of March. Marked rain deficits were experienced in Mediterranean regions and in several parts of western and central Europe. The cold and/or dry weather conditions hampered the growth and development of winter crops and caused delays to the sowing and emergence of spring and summer crops. Nevertheless, as it is still early in the season, negative impacts on annual crops are expected to have been very limited, and in only a few cases have led to significant downward revision of the yield forecasts, such as for rapeseed and durum wheat in France and several crops in Italy. Impacts on vineyards and fruit trees have been severe, however. The temperature surplus in northern regions and the precipitation surplus in eastern Europe and central Mediterranean regions were mostly favourable for crop growth.
BARUTH Bettina;
BASSU Simona;
BEN AOUN Wassim;
BIAVETTI Irene;
CEGLAR Andrej;
CERRANI Iacopo;
CHEMIN Yann;
CLAVERIE Martin;
DE PALMA Pierluca;
FUMAGALLI Davide;
LECERF Remi;
MANFRON Giacinto;
NISINI SCACCHIAFICHI Luigi;
PANARELLO Lorenzo;
RONCHETTI Giulia;
SEGUINI Lorenzo;
TORETI Andrea;
VAN DEN BERG Maurits;
VAN DER VELDE Marijn;
ZAJAC Zuzanna;
ZUCCHINI Antonio;
MULHERN Grainne;
VAN DEN BERG Maurits;
BARUTH Bettina;
NIEMEYER Stefan;
VAN DER VELDE Marijn;
2021-11-10
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC124849
2443-8278 (online),
OP KJ-AW-21-004-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC124849,
10.2760/592868 (online),
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