Heat record: never before so hot in Budapest and Hungary on 14 April
The national weather service HungaroMet said on its website that Budapest and Hungary as a whole witnessed record-high temperatures in the early morning and during the day on Sunday.
The mercury hit 31.2 degrees Celsius in Baja, in southern Hungary, breaking the previous record temperature of 28.7 C measured in Túrkeve in the east in 1939.
According to HungaroMet, the Budapest daytime high was also broken, with 29.8 C recorded in the 4th district, nearly 3 degrees higher than the previous record of 27 C measured in the 21st district in 1939.
A new highest minimum temperature of 15.9 C was recorded in Boda, in the southwest, nearly 2 C higher than the daily minimum temperature of 14 C measured in Gyöngyös and Kisbér in 1989.
Budapest’s János Hill also witnessed a record-high dawn temperature of 14.6 C, breaking the previous record of 14 C measured at the Budakeszi station in 1939.
As we wrote earlier, some outdoor pools are already open in Hungary, but the cold returns next week; details HERE.
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