Potato Crops endangered by unusual Coldness

South Iceland has been experiencing an unusually cold weather recently, with temperatures even going below zero at night.

Yesterday, mbl.is reported that due to the coldness, the potato plant has been damaged which affects the crops. Bergvin Jóhannsson, Chairman of the Potato Farmers Union calls that the fact that this is happening in July highly unusual.

The Associated Press: Cool summer disappoints tourists, delays crops

"There's more griping about the weather than we've seen in recent memory," said Norris Clark, marketing director for Morey's Piers, an amusement complex in Wildwood, N.J., where low temperatures and excessive rain have cut revenues by about 4 percent from last year.

"We're changing our advertising to talk about the heated pools in our water parks," Clark said.
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But, Angel said, the forecast for at least the next couple weeks suggests more unusually low temperatures are likely.

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