Table 2.
Minimum and maximum air temperatures, monthly rainfall, and pan evaporation of the experimental siten in 2017–2018 and 2018–2019 growing seasons.
| Month | Temperature (ºC) |
Raifall (mm) |
Pan evaporation (mm) |
|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017–18 |
2018–19 |
2017–18 | 2018–19 | 2017–18 | 2018–19 | |||||
| Min | Max | Mean | Min | Max | Mean | |||||
| December | 5.1 | 20.1 | 12.6 | 5.7 | 21.2 | 13.5 | 2.2 | 24.8 | 77.6 | 88.4 |
| January | 4.4 | 19.2 | 11.8 | 3.8 | 23.4 | 13.6 | 86.4 | 94.2 | 66.3 | 78.5 |
| February | 8.6 | 21.4 | 15.0 | 9.2 | 23.6 | 17.9 | 0 | 57.9 | 88.1 | 91.2 |
| March | 10.5 | 25.4 | 18.0 | 8.1 | 28.5 | 19.3 | 47.8 | 103.4 | 143.1 | 175.3 |
| April | 12.9 | 29.8 | 21.4 | 8.9 | 33.2 | 22.6 | 0 | 4.4 | 202.3 | 218.9 |
| May | 17.9 | 34.4 | 26.2 | 15.8 | 38.1 | 30.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 276.2 | 297.4 |
| June | 22.4 | 39.7 | 31.1 | 20.3 | 42.4 | 32.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 301.7 | 345.7 |
| July | 22.8 | 42.7 | 32.7 | 24.3 | 44.2 | 34.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 344.1 | 376.3 |