The start of the new year was too soft – and that is also reflected in the plants. Because these start with flowers and buds much earlier than in an average year. Spring plants are currently starting to flower one to two weeks earlier than the average in recent decades.
According to Geosphere Austria, forsythia and dirndls are already blooming at low altitudes in many places. The flowering of the apricot has already started, as in the Wachau, in the vicinity of Vienna and in the north of Burgenland around the Leithagebirge. “This means that the development of the plants is currently about a week ahead of the average of the last 30 years (average 1991-2020, note) and more than two weeks ahead of the average of the period 1961 to 1990, which is not so was hit hard by global warming,” says Helfried Scheifinger of Geosphere.
Up to 20 degrees thanks to the hair dryer
After the temperature drop on Wednesday and Thursday, it will certainly be spring-like again in the coming days: you can therefore expect a lot of sun and maximum temperatures between twelve and 17 degrees on Friday and Saturday, with occasional foehn up to 20 degrees in the west, predicted the Geosphere.
Phenology defines the seasons through the stage of development of certain “indicator plants”. At higher altitudes, early spring still prevails, which begins with the blooming of the snowdrops. Dirndl and Sal-Weide are also in bloom. Coltsfoot, Hepatica and Spring Snowflake follow.
In the lower areas, the first spring has begun with the forsythia blossom and green leaf tips can be seen on horse chestnuts. Blackthorn and sycamore are in bloom and the larch unfolds its needles. The full spring, the third and final phase of spring, has only just begun: it is ushered in with the beginning of apple and lilac blooms and ends with the raspberry blossom.
Source: Krone
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