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The storms have severely affected agricultural crops in Burgenland this year. “In total, there was a total damage of more than ten million euros in Burgenland agriculture,” Günther Kurz, national manager of the Austrian hail insurance company, said on Friday during a local inspection in the “Blaufränkischland” in the Oberpullendorf district.
In Burgenland, the situation this year has been characterized by various damages: at the end of March and beginning of April, frosts damaged the flower of the fruit. After that, impending drought in grasslands and summer crops could be avoided with a cool, wet May. The storms continued through the summer months with hail, storms and flooding. “The dramatic thing: many regions were damaged multiple times,” Kurz explained.
The violent storms of recent weeks are an indication of the rapid advance of climate change. Viticulture in Central Burgenland in particular was hit hard by extreme weather. In some places, almost total failures can be expected, Kurz reported.
