More than 34°C in the Oise.
This is the temperature, exceptional for a month of May, recorded last weekend in this department of Hauts-de-France.
And if the French farmers were waiting for the stormy rains this week, the latter proved to be quite insufficient to durably moisten the surface of the soil.
And even more to deeply fill groundwater.
For weeks, the rainfall deficit has thus settled in France,
"reaching 40% to 60% over the first five months of 2022",
according to Régis Crépet, meteorologist at La Chaîne Météo.
In addition, the dryness of the surface soils has been added for the past ten days to high temperatures.
However, this heat promotes the evapotranspiration of the little water that has fallen from the sky in recent weeks, and therefore the water stress of plants.
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