Időkép revealed the chances of a white Christmas in Hungary – PHOTOS
Időkép, one of the Hungarian weather forecast media outlets, revealed the chances of a white Christmas in Hungary. Computer simulations show two scenarios, and one of them can mean that there will be intensive snowfall on 24 December. In Hungary, white Christmas has been a wish for most people for years. Almost a decade has passed without snow on the celebration of Jesus’s birth.
Időkép clears at the beginning of their article that there is almost one month until Christmas and forecasts are highly unreliable for such a long term. However, they added some scenarios are already more probable than others.
In the first days of December, a massive anticyclone over Russia will move to the West. That will cause high air pressure over North Europe. The phenomenon will be helped by another anticyclone born over Greenland. These two anticyclones will block warmer and moist air masses, forcing them South to the Mediterranean.
Most computer simulations show that high air pressure will rule Europe’s North and Northwest regions. Furthermore, in the next half of next week, stratospheric warming may start further strengthening that effect.
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The different weather forecast models’ variation is still considerable, but the probability of the two scenarios is higher than other options.
If the high-pressure zone does not move too Southward, it may enable cyclones to enter the Western zones of Europe. That may result in spring-like Christmas weather in Hungary with rains but no snowfall.
However, if the stratospheric warming is strong enough to help the anticyclone get bigger, Hungary and the Carpathian Basin may be in its “cold zone”. In that case, Mediterranean cyclones could enter and create a thick layer of snow everywhere in Hungary. That would mean a white Christmas Hungarians have been waiting for for so long.
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In the Kőszeg mountains of West Hungary, snow arrived last week. Below you may find some astonishing photos:
Source: Időkép