ROVIGO – March rain and snow they brought substantial amounts benefits to the water forecast for the coming months. The bulletins of the Veneto Reclamation Association (Anbi) and the Regional Environment Agency (Arpav) show positive numbers, but with the plus sign, however, there is also the one close to the average temperatures and in this case there is less to smile about.
The Anbi, in fact, highlights that in March the average rainfall was 150 percent higher than the average of the last thirty years and the snow that fell “contributes to increasing the abundant availability of water resources” and on 31 March the snow resource was the largest in the last 15 years. Returning to the rain, in Veneto on average 163 millimeters fell compared to the historical average of 63. The effect on the rivers led to an average fall of 106 millimeters in the Po basin (plus 104 percent), with a fall in Pontelagoscuro which jumped to 3,145 cubic meters per second compared to 1,327 in the previous month, and an average rainfall in the Adige basin of 160 millimeters (plus 163 percent), for a flow rate of 294 cubic meters per second compared to 199 in February.
RAINFALL
The province of Rovigo, however, is confirmed to be the Venetian one where the rain arrives less than in other territories, so much so that one of the minimum data recorded by the Arpav in March concerns San Bellino, with 63 millimeters falling. The hydrological year, from October to March, still shows the Venetian minimums in Concadirame (339), San Bellino (345) Frassinelle (346) and Castelnovo Bariano (350).
The ARPAV, however, also already shows updated data on the meteorological situation for April which, as we know from having experienced it, first saw great heat, then the arrival of rain and a noticeable drop in temperatures, enough to make you put your sweaters back on . Thus we went (data from the Sant’Apollinare station in Rovigo) from 14.2 degrees on 27 March to 28.9 on 14 April, to 8.7 on 22 April, with an increase in these days and a maximum on Saturday of 16.6. There was very little rain in April, in the capital there was only the first one (1.8 millimetres), then 24 millimeters on 22 April of the great cold mentioned, 15.2 the day after and the drop 2.4 of the 24th of the month.
Moving to the Delta, in Pila the trend was not very different from the capital in terms of temperatures, but the rainfall was greater, with 4.8 millimeters on the first of the month, 34.8 on the 22nd, 18 on the 23rd, 31st, 2 on the 24th and a tail of 8.4 on the 25th.
In Alto Polesine, at the San Bellino station, even less water fell from the sky: 35 millimeters on the 22nd, 4.6 on the 23rd and 3 on the 24th.
THE PROBLEM
The average temperature, however, was 1.3 degrees higher than the average temperature of the last three decades and the data «remaining at these anomaly levels, will cause enormous problems for crops and for the quality of life in the city» .
March, to give another reference, is the tenth consecutive month, since June 2023, to be consistently the warmest in history.
In Polesine there were higher temperatures from more than one degree above average to more than 2, in particular in Alto Polesine especially in the areas closest to the Po, and in Lower Polesine almost everywhere. The falling water, however, at the moment averts drought alarms, with the index for this province being stable in a “normal” situation.
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