The meteorological summer (June, July, August) lasts another two weeks. But it’s already clear that it tops the list of the hottest in measurement history. “If you take into account the predicted trend until the end of the month, the summer of 2022 in the lowlands and on the mountains of Austria will be in the range of the summer of 2015, the third warmest summer in the history of Austria. measurements,” said Alexander Orlik of the Central Institute of Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) Thursday.
“In the last days of August, it will be decided whether it will be third or fourth place. In the lowlands of Austria, 2003 and 2019 are still in first place and the warmest summer in the mountains was 2003 and 2019 is in second place,” the meteorologist reports.
Number of warm days is increasing
The number of warm days (at least 30 degrees) in 2022 is already well above the already high average of the climate period 1991-2020 18 in Bregenz, 19 in Linz and Salzburg, 24 in St. Pölten, 25 in Graz, 31 in Klagenfurt and Innsbruck, 33 in Eisenstadt and 36 in the center of Vienna.
“The number of warm days has increased enormously over the past 30 years. Before 1990, as many warm days as this year would have been a record,” Orlik emphasized. “Meanwhile, the record is 40 warm days, reached in 2003 or 2015.”
Source: Krone
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