The first day of 2022 was the warmest January 1st in 101 years

We have just written a snippet about the weather going crazy on New Year’s Eve and breaking century-old records around the country, especially in western Hungary, but it seems that the weather continues to surprise us and the record-breaking continues in 2022 as well.

Időkép, a weather forecasting website wrote that the previous record set in 1921 in Budapest, the Hungarian capital have been already broken before noon on January 1^st, 2022.

It is almost as if spring had arrived to Hungary a few months early. Even though Hungary had a mild winter in 2021, and white Christmas only came to a few places, it is still shocking that meteorological stations have recorded over 17 °C on New Year’s Day in the country.

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The Hungarian Meteorological Service have posted on their Facebook page that the previous all-time high on January 1^st was broken by over 2 °C.

Previously, the all-time high was held by Sopron with 15.3 °C recorded in 1921, while the current highest was recorded in Főnyed with 17.5 °C.

Budapest’s record was also broken. In 1921, they recorded 13 °C on the top of Gellért Hill. Yesterday, the temperature was 14.4 °C at Lágymányos, but Ferihegy (in the area of Budapest Airport) and Újpest was only lagging behind by 0.2 °C.

The Hungarian Meteorological Service also highlighted, that 50 of their weather stations have recorded higher temperatures than a 101 years ago.

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Source: 24.hu, idokep.hu, met.hu