February ends with a sad record: both Vienna and Bregenz did not record a single day with frost. But it wasn’t just February that was particularly dry and mild this year. Weather experts are also talking about the warmest winter since measurements began.
Last but not least, the last few weeks in particular have provided persistent spring-like temperatures of up to 19 degrees. December started with quite heavy snowfall in the lowlands, brought several storms between the Christmas period and ended in February with unusually mild and mainly dry weather conditions.
Strong deviations from normal temperature
This means a deviation of plus 3.1 degrees compared to the average from 1991 to 2020. According to weather experts, the largest deviations occurred in February and the smallest in January.
On a monthly basis, February also recorded the largest measured temperature increase to date compared to the current climate average. In many parts of the country, February was warmer than an average March this month, and in Wiener Neustadt it even surpassed March’s record. “Such a large deviation from the monthly average has never been measured in the past 200 years, in any month,” analyzes Nikolas Zimmermann, meteorologist at the Austrian Severe Weather Center.
No frost in Vienna and Bregenz for the first time
Temperatures for this month were above the seasonal average from the start, which meant that for the first time in the entire month there was no frost at several weather stations, such as at the Hohe Warte in Vienna, where measurements have been taken since then. 1872. At altitudes below 1,400 metres, no weather station recorded an ice day.
Warmest in the east
Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland were the warmest in all of Austria with deviations between 3.3 and 3.7 degrees. Due to the increased temperatures last winter, the warmest winter of 2006/07 has been replaced at the top.
February with little precipitation
There was significantly more sunshine than normal across the country, especially in February. The partly dry weather conditions were also quite unusual for the last month of winter.
The high temperatures also influence the pollen season. The simultaneous full flowering of hazel and alder at the beginning of February increased the burden for allergy sufferers.
Source: Krone
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