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It is very unusual to be reporting these levels of precipitation but temperatures are definitely usual!
- A few light drizzles accumulating 12 mm – about half an inch of rainfall.
- Air and soil temperatures dropped and we had several nighttime lows below 20 Celsius (68°F)
- The average minimum air temperature was 20,1°C (68,1°F)
- The average was 25°C (77,1°F).
- Soil temperature declined slightly to 25,6°C (78°F).
- Continue to increase harvest age –
- Fruit harvested at 20 WAF made up 87.9%; at 21 WAF 9.6% and only 2.5% at 19 WAF
- Average sugar content declined slightly
- Improved external color – zero color declined to 17,6%; high color fruit (greater than 2,5) rose to 6,1 %
- Covid 19 infections increase – 28.097 new cases reported – 83,8% increase from the previous week
- Almost 100% of our workforce fully vaccinated.