Flower almonds attract tourists who, delighted with the ‘spectacle of nature’, also take the opportunity to eat slaps and drink red. This year they flowered almost three weeks earlier than usual. Experts say it is due to climate change.
The high temperatures out of the time caused an early flowering of almond trees in the city of Arbeca, Catalonia, Spain. Experts say it is due to .
The almonds in flower were a sign that spring was coming. But this year, the flowers were born almost three weeks earlier than normalin Spain, 1 month from the ‘official arrival of spring’.
Since 1981, when records of the flowering of almond trees began to be made, it is the second year to be born early. The record took place in 1993, with the first flowering recorded on January 8.
According to 2023 was the third year drier ever in Spain and summer was the hottest ever recorded.
“Climate change directly affects flowering progress. We had decades of intense cold and fog winters and virtually spring winters. This year, for example, we may be able to count the days that were cold with the fingers of one hand,” says Francesc Rosset, head of the Arbeca Environment Department, to .
As landscape change attracts tourists who, delighted to visit fields FLOWER CHILDERSThey eat slaps and drink red, Spanish cuisine appetizers.
“I’m so happy when I see the flowers, bees and insects and trees. Yes, that’s why we’re here,” says Wilma van den Heuvel, a Dutch tourist.
Spain is one of the world’s largest almond exporters. A year of bad crops can have great economic implications.
