After ending the year with temperatures above the seasonal average in Portugal, the warm air mass from Africa that crossed the country moved to European states not used to such mild temperatures in the New Year.
At least eight countries already register the hottest January day since there is record: Spain, Poland, Denmark, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Belarus, Lithuania and Latvia.
The year 2023 started with “an extreme weather event in Europe,” warns climatologist Maximiliano Herrera, quoted by the British newspaper The Guardian.
Alex Burkill of the UK meteorological institute agrees: “It’s been extremely hot over a huge area, which is almost, to be honest, unheard of.”
This is because a warm air mass that developed off the west coast of Africa moved into northeastern Europe from Portugal and Spain, pushed by high pressures over the Mediterranean.
In the town of Korbielów, in Poland, the thermometers reached 19 degrees Celsius when the average in January is usually around 1 ºC and in Javorník, in the Czech Republic, temperatures reached 19.6 ºC (compared to an average of 3 ºC at this time). of the year). year).
* The hottest January days on record in these countries *
Poland: 19.0C Korbielow and Jodłownik
Denmark: 12.6C Abed
Czech Republic: 19.6C Javorník
Netherlands: 16.9C Eindhoven
Belarus: 16.4C Visokaye NATIONAL RECORD BROKEN BY 4.5C !
Lithuania: 14.6C Marijampole
Latvia: 11.1C Daugavpils pic.twitter.com/aT3h2YwKLv— Extreme temperatures around the world (@extremetemps) January 1, 2023
In Vysokaje, Belarus, sub-zero temperatures would be expected, but on the first day of the year they reached 16.4ºC.
A Spanish town also registered the hottest day of January: the mercury reached 24.9ºC in Bilbao.
Source: TSF
