THE FAKE spring with unusually hot in one of the periods that should be among the coldest of the year, is making flowering almond and mimosa and anticipates the revival of fruit-bearing plants from Liguria to Sicily, from Apulia, Abruzzo, Sardinia and Emilia to Piedmont. It is the alarm launched by Coldiretti in relation to the wave of above average temperatures that are investing in Italy after the month of January is extremely mild, which was also marked by poor rainfall that has favoured the smog in the cities.
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An anomaly after a 2019 in Italy it is the fourth warmest year since 1800, with a temperature even higher than of 0,96 degrees with respect to the average reference after the records of 2014, 2015 and 2018, according to the processing Coldiretti on data from the Isac-Cnr.
the First blooms on the trees of Milan: in the early spring?
The “fake spring” – emphasizes the Coldiretti – has misled the crops by fostering an “awakening” that makes them particularly vulnerable to the announced return of the cold with incalculable damage to the production.
Climate, #Coldiretti: nature in tilt with fake spring. Early waking for the plants with the almond and mimosa is already in bloom pic.twitter.com/rj2Nn0KFIG
— Coldiretti (@coldiretti) February 1, 2020
The nature is in the tilt in the heart of winter where patchy along the Peninsula occurred – highlights Coldiretti – blooms early mimosas in Liguria and the mediterranean Apulia , the Sicily and Sardinia , where he began to blossom, also a few fruit plant, while in the Abruzzo are in the process of awakening, with an advance of more than a month, the trees of plums, peaches, while the apricot trees in the Emilia already have the gems that are even opening in the nut of the Piedmont .
