A mild southwesterly current and a foehn ensure an extremely mild turn of the year in Austria. The previous New Year’s record was already reached at noon on Saturday at 18.3 degrees at the ZAMG weather station in Aspach (Upper Austria) – this was 18.3 degrees in Berndorf, Lower Austria, measured on the last day of 2021. during the day the temperatures rise slightly.
In Switzerland, it was one of the warmest annuals since records began in the mid-19th century. On the night of New Year’s Eve, new temperature peaks were already recorded, for example in Basel, where the thermometer showed 16.7 degrees at 1 a.m. – a record.
Two factors were responsible for the high night temperatures: on the one hand, extremely warm air reached Switzerland from the southwest. On the other hand, the wind constantly mixed the warm air at altitude with cooler air at the bottom. When the wind died down, the temperature dropped and at 9 a.m. it was “only” 11.1 degrees in Basel.
22 degrees possible in Germany
In Germany, temperature records should be “pulverized” on New Year’s Eve. The German Weather Service (DWD) expects temperatures of up to 20 degrees. Some station thermometers along the Rhine indicated 17 degrees early on Saturday. “In the southwest and with foehn support also near the Alps it is up to 20 degrees, on the Upper Rhine even up to 22 degrees,” predicted a meteorologist.
On New Year’s Day it will be sunny and very mild again in most of Austria, with maxima between twelve and 18 degrees. Particularly in the east and south, however, local fog or high fog may persist and here too it will remain significantly cooler with maximum values of seven degrees.
Source: Krone
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