No stopping: heat records broken on Sunday in Hungary

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

Heat record broken again

A daytime minimum of 16.6 degrees Celsius was measured in Napkor, in north-east Hungary. The last record (15.0 C) was registered in Kaposvár, in southern Hungary, in 1926, HungaroMet reports.

The Budapest dawn temperature record was also broken, with 14.5 C recorded in Zugliget, nearly 2 C  more than the daily minimum temperature of 12.6 C measured at the Orszagút station in 2017.

In the capital’s 18th district, a maximum of 25.1 C was measured, breaking the record daily high of 25.0 C recorded in Ferihegy in 1989.

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