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Rome – Christmas with mimosas flowering already in advance of two and a half months compared to the feast of the women in the camps, but there are also primroses, violets and grass grows in the spring as to confirm a climatic anomaly that with heat and lack of rain and wind caused the smog in the city and a historic drought winter in the countryside.
And ‘Coldiretti in underlining that to upset nature was a December with 2.5 degrees of temperature higher than the average but also with almost no rain (-95%) after that November maximum temperatures were 2.5 degrees warmer than average with rainfall almost halved (-49%) but with peaks of 80% less than in the North.
If the Po river like many other rivers is the same level as during the summer, in some areas in the mountains is fire alarm fire completely out of season for the presence of withered grass and shrubs in the woods but the effects – according to Coldiretti – there They are also animals with babies who have not gone into hibernation but there are still annoying insects such as mosquitoes that have developed a number of generations higher than normal for the abnormal climate. One problem – Coldiretti – which also covers the fields where they expect the production season heavy infestation of insect pathogens that are not limited by traditional cold winter.
For Failure to lower temperatures in the countryside wheat – detects Coldiretti – is higher than normal and there are fears for their crops while the buds of the plants are swollen like bolting and if it were to occur now a strong and sudden drop in temperature will have a serious impairment of crops.
We are facing the effects of climate change that are being manifested by repeated phase shifts seasonal and extreme events with heavy effects on Italian agriculture over the last ten years suffered damage to 14 billion euro between floods and droughts that was especially violent in 2003, 2007 and 2012.
“This situation – concluded Coldiretti – confirms the importance Agreement signed at the climate conference in Paris a year globally is going to win the first place of the hottest years ever, the head of a ranking that also sees all ten hottest years in history after the 2000 “.
SPRING IN NEW YORK – A New York Christmas season with mild temperatures and record: Central Park Thursday ‘are touched the 22 degrees, the highest temperature ever recorded on the eve of Christmas.
In Washington, the tourists were able to run in T-shirt and sit at a street of bars and restaurants in the capital and across the north-east people have dusted off the clothing lighter put away for the winter.
The unusual early spring caused by El Super Nino, the abnormal warming of Pacific waters this year even more marked, even went to the Canada: Quebec, Saint Anicet, there have been 22 degrees, even in this case a recoprd for the region.
Toronto with 17 degrees was defeated record heat for a Christmas Eve that resisted since 1964 and was 12 degrees, closed ice rink .
In the port of Norfolk, in Virginia, the mercury has reached 28 degrees, records of all times of the state for the month of December.
In the only resort facility in Maryland on 35 tracks it is just opened and only thanks to artificial snow.
A food blog of the New York Times has adapted proposing “recipes for Christmas at 22 degrees” with salmon smoked and salads.
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