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Table. 6 Location of turkey farms, and temperature (°C) and precipitation (mm) data

From: The incidence of necrotic enteritis in turkeys is associated with farm, season and faecal Eimeria oocyst counts

Location

Climate variablea

Jan-Mar

Apr-June

July-Sep

Oct-Dec

Hedmarken (Hamar)

Temperature

-2 to -1,

-24, 10

2 to 16,

-5, 31

8 to 17,

1, 28

-6 to 8,

-9, 16

 

Precipitation

15–22

28–56

56–68

26–49

Østfold (Rakkestad)

Temperature

-3 to 2,

-23, 13

2 to 15,

-6, 31

8 to 16,

0, 29

-3 to 8,

-8, 17

 

Precipitation

49–64

49–76

82–102

85–104

Vestfold (Tjølling)

Temperature

-1 to 4,

-17, 14

4 to 16,

-4, 29

10 to 17,

2, 27

0 to 10,

-5, 16

 

Precipitation

49–55

55–64

79–117

84–132

  1. aTemperature: Lower and upper normal temperatures per quarter (upper row in each cell), and minimum and maximum temperature during the 13 month period including May 2020 to May 2021 (lower row in each cell). The normal temperature is based on data from 1991–2020 (https://www.met.no/vaer-og-klima/ny-normal-i-klimaforskningen). Precipitation: Lower and upper normal amount (mm of water) of monthly precipitation per quarter. Data based on records from three representative locations (https://www.yr.no/nb/historikk/)