With a maximum temperature of 38.7 degrees, August in Austria was extremely hot and partly dry. Weather experts are even talking about the sixth warmest August in the history of lowland readings.
Probably the highest temperature of the year was 38.7 degrees on August 5 in Seibersdorf in Lower Austria. “It was the sixth warmest August in the history of measurements in the lowlands of Austria, and the fifteenth warmest in the mountains,” said Alexander Orlik, a climatologist at the Central Institute of Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) on Thursday.
August brought only one or two brief periods of relatively cool weather in Austria. Usually it was warmer than average to very hot. “August 2022 was 1.2 degrees above the average of the recent past in the lowlands of Austria (climate average 1991-2020). On the mountains it was 0.8 degrees warmer. Compared to the climatic period from 1961 to 1990, August 2022 was 3 degrees above the average in the lowlands and 2.6 degrees in the mountains,” Orlik said in a broadcast.
Extreme amounts of rain for a short time
In the Austrian evaluation, August was relatively dry and there was 15 percent less precipitation than average. For a short time, however, extreme amounts of rain fell in some regions. The ZAMG set new 24-hour rain records at some weather stations in Vorarlberg from August 18 to 19.
New rain record in Vorarlberg
In Bregenz, for example, there was a new record of 212 millimeters, not only for the location, but for the whole of Vorarlberg. Feldkirch, where measurements have been taken since 1895, clearly surpassed the previous 24-hour record of 122 millimeters in 1910 by 167 millimeters on the same day.
Source: Krone
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