France had its coldest April morning on record Monday, which has damaged crops since it has come on the heels of an unusually warm period.
However, the effects of the cold wave in France may be less severe than 2021 due to the timing and coverage, said Touzard. This year, the cold spell occurred a few days earlier and vegetation growth, especially for vines, was less advanced. Many buds are still not open. The cold wave also seems to be less extensive, mainly concentrated in southwest regions.
He also said winegrowers learned from last year’s devastating freeze. Now they have better monitoring of the frostiest plots, pruned their vineyards later and put up more protection in their vineyards. Some French vinters are“The fruit tree growers and grape vine growers are...afraid of this kind of damage. It’s starting to be quite regular,” Guillaume Charrier, also a researcher at INRAE, said.
“If those flower buds get hit by frost, they don’t regenerate that spring, and they don’t regenerate for the whole year,” Theresa Crimmins, the director of the USA National Phenology Network and a research professor at the University of Arizona, . “There’s been in recent years some really devastating impacts where we’ve had early warmth, followed by frosts and then total loss of crops.”The false spring in March 2012 was followed by an April freeze that resulted in half billion dollars in damages in Michigan.
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