Not only was the Christmas holiday much too hot in Austria this year, it will also be extremely mild and sunny in the New Year’s weekend with a maximum of 18 degrees.
According to weather experts, these are the highest values in the range of records, both of which come from the previous year. The highest temperature on New Year’s Eve was 18.3 degrees in Berndorf in Lower Austria on December 31, 2021. A new New Year’s Day record was set the following day, with 18.8 degrees on January 1, 2022 in Köflach in Austria. Styria.
Ben Saturday in most of Austria it is quite sunny, with a few dense clouds in between. Thick fog banks dominate only in Carinthia. New Year’s Eve then passed without rain and snowfall. Temperatures range from 5 to 10 degrees at midnight. In the Alpine valleys, the chance of light frost is high. During the day it can reach a maximum of 18 degrees.
Ben New Year’s Day on Sunday the fog fields in the lowlands are more frequent than the previous day and can last until noon in places in the south and east. In most of Austria the weather will be quite sunny. According to the current ZAMG forecast from Wednesday morning, early temperatures range from minus three to over ten degrees, daily highs, depending on fog or sun, around four to 17 degrees.
For the Christmas forecast, ZAMG expert Alexander Orlik pointed to the effects of global warming on Austria’s holiday weather. “Of course there are large fluctuations from year to year, but in the long term the trend towards increasingly milder temperatures at Christmas is clearly recognizable,” said Orlik and a comparison of the period 1961 to 1990 with that of 1991 to 2020 in the provincial capitals of Austria shows a warming of up to two and a half degrees.
Significant consequences of the climate crisis
If you compare the December averages of the past ten years from the Hohe Warte measuring station in Vienna, these are 1.1 degrees apart from one outlier in 2012, well above the average of 1.3 degrees from 1961 to 1990. The years 2014 (average value: 4.1 degrees), 2015 (4.6) and 2019 (4.0) even exceed these values by more than two and a half degrees. According to science, a clear – and noticeable – impact of the climate crisis.
Source: Krone
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