With sufficient winter chill accumulated across California's almond footprint and bloom insufficiently far advanced to move the index, DASI remains unchanged at 100.6.
DASI is published every other Monday at 4am PST/12pm GMT.
More granular views of the index (county level, irrigation district, GSA and custom footprints) are available via the Demeter platform.
An unusually wet start to the bloom period gave way to highly favourable conditions that reversed February’s decline, leading DASI to its second-highest level in 10 years by the conclusion of bloom.
The headline DASI is little changed from prior publication as generally favourable conditions tip into heat stress in some areas.
Today's index is 75.8, down 24.5% from 7 days ago. This was driven by extreme precipitation events considerably above long-term averages with 30.1 mm of precipitation across the production footprint. The average temperature was 12.1 C.