“We had a very warm new year last year but this blows that out of the water,” he said. The meteorologist Scott Duncan said the temperatures across Europe were staggering. New Year’s Eve, I think about seven sites in southern England recorded their warmest ever New Year’s Eve on record.”
“It’s also worth noting, we had some exceptionally warm weather in the south of England. “It has been widespread, Denmark, Czech Republic, as well as pretty much the whole of Germany have seen temperatures for January exceeding records,” Burkill said. “It’s been extreme heat across a huge area, which is almost, to be honest, unheard of,” he said.īurkill said a warm air mass that developed off the west coast of Africa had travelled north-east across Europe from Portugal and Spain, pulled in by high pressure over the Mediterranean. “We can arguably say this is the first time an extreme weather event in Europe (in terms of extreme heat) is comparable to the most extreme in North America.”Īlex Burkill, a senior meteorologist at the Met Office, agreed it was an extreme weather event. “Take the case of July 2022 UK extreme heatwave and spread this sigma (magnitude) in a much huger area, encompassing about 15 countries. “We can regard this as the most extreme event in European history,” Herrera said. Only Norway, Britain, Ireland, Italy and the south-east Mediterranean posted no records. Northern Spain and the south of France basked in beach weather, with 24.9C in Bilbao, its hottest ever January day, and records broken at stations in Cantabria, Asturias and the Basque region. On Sunday they reached 16.4C, beating the country’s previous record January high by 4.5C.Įlsewhere on the continent, local records were broken at thousands of individual measuring stations, with nearly 950 toppled in Germany alone from 31 December to 2 January, Herrera said. Temperatures in Vysokaje, Belarus, would normally hover around zero at this time of year. In Javorník in the Czech Republic it was 19.6C, compared with an average of 3C for this time of year. In Korbielów, Poland, the mercury hit 19C (66F) – a temperature the Silesian village is more used to in May, and 18C above the 1C annual average for January.
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