The hottest day of the year so far – With 37.7 degrees in Seibersdorf (Lower Austria), the highest temperatures of the year so far in Austria were reached on Thursday. The clear heat hotspot was in eastern Austria, in the western half there were only isolated temperatures above 30 degrees. The Wednesday before, Innsbruck, with 37 degrees at the measuring station of the university there, was the Austrian heat pile.
Behind Seibersdorf followed Mattersburg in Burgenland with 37.1 degrees and Bad Deutsch-Altenburg in Lower Austria with exactly 37 degrees with daily maximum temperatures in the late afternoon. However, the temperatures are still a bit far from the previous Austrian record. The hottest maximum values ever recorded in Austria were recorded in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg on August 8, 2013 at 40.5 degrees.
36.1 degrees in Vienna
36.1 degrees was measured in the center of Vienna on Thursday afternoon. Only in 23rd place out of 280 ZAMG measuring stations with 35.2 degrees in Ferlach in Carinthia was a place outside the three eastern states.
The warmest place in Styria was Bad Radkersburg with 34.7 degrees, in Tirol Lienz with 34.2 degrees and in Upper Austria Enns with 31.7 degrees. In the other federal states, the maximum temperature was below 30 degrees. In Salzburg, 29.3 degrees was measured in Tamsweg and in Vorarlberg it was 27.7 degrees in the warmest place, in Feldkirchen.
Source: Krone
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