The arrival of bad weather with cold and night frost risks torching the flowers and buds of plants and trees, which will have a significant impact on the subsequent harvests after the abnormal heat has favored the early vegetative awakening of almonds, hazelnuts, peaches, cherries, apricots, and citrus fruits. This is what Coldiretti says about the civil protection weather notice for thunderstorms, high gusts, storm surges, and local snowfall up to hilly elevations. A sudden climatic shift that leaves crops unprepared following a December with temperatures 2.09 degrees higher than the historical norm, but the anomaly was even 2.54 degrees in central Italy and 2.65 degrees in the south, according to Coldiretti elaborations on the revised ISAC-CNR database.
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