Easter brings summer: Heat records broken on Saturday in Hungary

Several heat records were broken in Hungary on Saturday, the national weather service HungaroMet said on its website.

Easter brings heat records

A daytime maximum of 27.6 degrees Celsius was measured in Kelebia, in southern Hungary. The last record (26.9 C) was registered in Szerep, in eastern Hungary, in 1911, HungaroMet reported.

Meanwhile, the dawn temperature was also broken, with 15.8 C recorded in Koroncó station, in north-west Hungary, more than 1 C  more than the daily minimum temperature of 14.3 measured in Lágymányos in 2017.

In the capital’s 18th district, 25 C was measured on Saturday, which is nearly 1 C higher than the record daily high of 24.1 C recorded in Budapest’s Országút station in 1926.

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