What’s new in Denmark regarding drought and temperature? Is it a problem for a country, where it rains 300 days a year, to have one month where the temperature does not exceed 30 degrees? And wtf with that 24 degree warning?
What’s new in Denmark regarding drought and temperature? Is it a problem for a country, where it rains 300 days a year, to have one month where the temperature does not exceed 30 degrees? And wtf with that 24 degree warning?
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It doesn’t rain 300 days a year in Denmark. Drought doesn’t have much to do with temperature, what matters is weeks without any rain, and preceeding months with less than usual rain. There’s no heatwave warning in Aarhus because it’s colder there due to proximity to the ocean.
This is Denmark. Everything over 15 Celsius is too hot.
The temperature itself is not the problem, it’s the lack of rain that is, as you might know a massive amount of the Danish countryside is farmland used both for human consumption and for animal feed.
Now crops need water to survive, that’s obvious, and for the most part they get that water from the rain, however as there hasn’t really been any rain recently farmers are reaching the point where they need to artificially water their fields, the problem with that is that our water supply currently isn’t dimensioned for that massive use of water, especially not when mixed with people watering their lawns and filling up their pools.
That’s the first problem, the second one, and the one that affects everyone is of cause the inherent fire risk that comes with the drought.
As for the warning, according to dmi it’s not a warning be a notice to watch, in regards to a possible heatwave, that is 3+ days of temperatures above 28°C.
It hasn’t rained for over a month in Nordsjælland. Everything there is completely dry.
We want more rain in denmark, now.
Yes it is a problem when a society is constructed on a particular climate and the weather doesn’t conform. 5 degrees isn’t a lot, but if it were 5 degrees at the north pole, it’d be a problem. If Las Vegas had a Danish summer, the bottom floor of the luxor would drown, this is all relative.
300 days a year?
Also its the timing, the drought now is bad for the strawberries, for the gardens and barbecuing; and not least for Skt Hans celebration in a couple of weeks which requieres large bonfires.
Yes it’s a problem because severre drought makes the ground hard and unable to absorb water easily once it does start raining. That means each drought is followed by floodings, unless the rain comes in very small batches.
Temperature and drought are two different things. It can be warm if you have rain occasionally. And yes it is an issue for farmers in particular, because their plants need water at crucial times in the plants’ development.
Its just a weather report. I don’t understand your concern or question?
I guess farmers and other activists in the nature have a problem with the lack of water.
Good question about the temperature warning, because thats new, and i dont know either.. Normally, in denmark, everything above 30 is starting to get a bit much.. Bit we dont normally perceive 25 as dangerous
🤷 the problem with drought in Denmark is the same as the problems of drought in any countries.
Your knowledge is low on basic geography..just check the hydrotherm figures of Denmark
But… i will not hold this against you.
Denmark has a lot of export of farming goods ( grains, vegetables etc). Those needs rain.
Also we get our drinking water from the ground .. so not surface water.