Germany: the drought has amazed(struck) up to third of areas under crops
07.05.2007 12:19 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
The summer of 2007 in Germany can become record-breaking hot and block parameters of 2003 when the heat above 30 degrees on a scale of Celsius kept more than 30 days on end, transfers(transmits) ITAR-TASS.According to the German meteorological service (DVD) in Offenbach, the basis for the gloomy forecast was given with the April which has become(begun) hottest, solar and droughty for all history of regular meteorological supervision in Germany since 1901. The average temperature of April has made plus of 11,7 degrees, that on 4,3 degrees above norm(rate). By that on 1,1 degrees has been beaten a former record of April, 1961. It is remarkable, that sredneaprelskaya the temperature in Germany has closely come nearer to parameters of southern regions of the Europe — the Spanish Bilbao (11,8 degrees) and the Italian Venice (12,2 degrees). Abnormal heat of this spring is accompanied by an abundance of sunny days. According to DVD, in April the sun shone in the cloudless sky 283 hours, almost there is more than average indice of April for last decades (152,3 hours) and much more, than usually in May (195,7 hours), and also in June (198,2 hours), in July (208,8 hours) and in August (196,8 hours). The former record of April, 1968 — 216,9 hours of the hot sun in a firmament has simultaneously been blocked. The absolute record on duration of clear solar weather belongs to July, 2006 — 333,6 hours. The parameter of May, 1989 a little lags behind it(him) — 298,8 hours. And in legendary August, 2003 cloudless weather kept 277,2 hours. However the greatest concern is caused with a drought. In usual years in April in Germany 58,3 mm of deposits on 1 kv drop out. The m, but in April, 2007 of 1695 stations of supervision over deposits in territory of the country have fixed(recorded) the low quantity(amount) of deposits — only 4,1 mm is unprecedented. It in 14,2 times is less than norm(rate) and in 5,2 times less, than in the most droughty hitherto April, 1974 (21,3 mm of deposits). " Earlier we knew four seasons, and now only two — winter and summer ", — the representative of the German country union ascertains. The drought has amazed(struck) up to third of areas under crops in Germany that will inevitably lead to sharp decrease(reduction) in manufacture of agricultural products and appreciable rise in price of all food stuffs.
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