Four categories broke the heat record on 1 April in Hungary

Hot air continued to flow in the Carpathian Basin from the south on April 1, breaking several heat records, the weather service said on Tuesday.

The new national record for the highest morning temperature on April 1 was 17.4 degrees Celsius, registered at Jászszentlászló, southern Hungary, as against the earlier record of 15.4 C registered in Lenti in 1989.

According to HungaroMet, the new afternoon record temperature for the day was 30.2 C, in Kelebia, southern Hungary, as against the previous record of 27.7 C registered in Körmend in 1989.

Budapest’s new early morning record high temperature was 16.2 C on April 1 at Ferihegy, near Budapest, as against the former record of 13.2 at Lágymanyos in 2016.

The Budapest heat record for the day was 28.1 registered at Újpest, as against 26.1 registered in the exact location in 2021.

The weather service said that once all measurements are certified for Monday, then April 1, 2024 will be the earliest day of the year ever recorded with temperature above 30 C since April 8, 1939.

As we wrote yesterday, heat records were broken on Easter Sunday in Hungary; details are HERE.

Also as we wrote earlier, the year 2023 was the hottest and the 8th wettest year in Hungary since records started in 1901, details HERE.

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