Famine is around the corner

[WhiteTara]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/farmers-devastated-rare-freeze-wipes-110058352.html

Farmers devastated after rare freeze wipes out nearly every crop: 'In a scary predicament at the moment'
Extreme weather is wreaking havoc in Romania, causing damage to essential stone fruit. Fresh Plaza recently reported that consecutive freezing temperatures and frost have impacted harvest yields for the season.
What's happening?

Cold temperatures as low as 17 degrees Fahrenheit have hit Romania and lasted an entire week, according to Bogdan Baianu, CEO and co-founder of Romanian fresh produce exporter Cerasus Grup Romania. While Romania is not a stranger to these types of drops in temperature, frosts have never lasted five straight days.

As a result, stone fruits such as cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots, and plums endured high levels of stress, according to Baianu. For peaches, about 90-100% of crops "have been wiped out," and for cherries, about 70-80% of the harvest has been lost across Romania.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/farmers-devastated-rare-freeze-wipes-110058352.html

Devastation struck farmers across South Korea after an unexpected spring frost wiped out newly blossomed crops.
What's happening?

An unprecedented spring frost fell upon South Korea, with temperatures falling to 22.6 degrees Fahrenheit. This led to new pear blossoms becoming frostbitten and dying.

The pistils of the flowers turned black, indicating the death of the blossoms. Lee Mi-suk, an orchardist who has spent over three decades growing pears, has never seen anything like this.

"In over 30 years of growing pears, I've never seen the blossoms freeze and die off like this," Lee told JoongAng Daily. "What good is inspecting the pollen when there are no ovaries?"

Other crops in the region, including peaches and apples, also suffered due to the erratic weather. Hundreds of cases of cold-damaged crops were reported in nearby North Chungcheong.

[Melon]

1. Famine due to a reduction in peaches and cherries?

Not wheat or rice….apricots……

[Blue Full Moon]

2. Man made like tRump's doing.

Weather has caused some problems already. Then there is old stock market manipulator breaking the supply chains. Then there's the migrant farm workers who's afraid of ICE and who would blame them. Then there is most of the food in the country comes from elsewhere. Most of strawberry farms moved to Mexico, for example. Then tRump raised prices do his tariff taxes and the stores raised all the prices even on things from the USA. Cutting food assistance and blocked food going to food pantries.

[róisín_dubh]

3. When was it freezing in Romania?

I mean, I looked at Bucharest in the past month and I don't think it's dipped below 0C. It's been warm as hell across much of Europe since the beginning of April. Heavy rains with flooding in some spots- that happens every spring and early summer. I briefly skimmed the article and didn't notice any dates.
In England, we had nearly 2 months of mostly fabulous weather.
This seems very click baity and scare mongering.

[DFW]

4. Here in Central/Western Europe, April/early May was way warmer than now

Since around May 10, it has been cooler and rainier than it was the five weeks prior, and that was the case from the German Rheinland down to the central Portuguese coast. Today, I just had breakfast in Belgium, am on my way down to Paris for the day, and should be back home soon in Düsseldorf before midnight. It is uncomfortably cool/cold, and the rain isn’t expected to stop before tomorrow.

Tomorrow is a holiday here, and I’m taking Friday and Sunday off as well. A little sun and some warmer temperatures will draw no complaints from me.

[markodochartaigh]

5. Here in Southwest Florida

on March 7 my garden had temperatures in the mid 30's for several hours. Not low enough to damage my mango trees, but most of the flowers and small mangoes were killed. The unseasonably cold temperatures were due to a disruption in the polar vortex.

Another far more important worry is that the level of RuBisCo activase's heat tolerance is near the temperatures experienced in many grain growing areas. No RuBisCo, no photosynthesis, no grain harvest. Serial cereal harvest failures is something which will challenge humanity's survival. Scientists are working on increasing the heat tolerance. Who knows how this vital research will be affected by the current regime.



https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35981868/



https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/total-polar-vortex-collapse-stratospheric-warming-march-2025-impact-forecast-united-states-canada-fa/