“The summer heat is only hours away,” the weather service said Facebookon his side. In the late evening hours, the marked cold front from the west reaches the territory of our country, the cloudiness of which already spread over the ranges of the Alps in the midday hours.
The air mass of oceanic origin causes significant cooling, and the strong stormy wind clears our airspace, which has been burdened with high pollen concentrations for days.
“Until the midnight hours, its effect can only be clearly felt in the western and northwestern part of Transdanubia, and then in the second half of the night, on Tuesday morning, rain, showers (with a small chance of embedded thunderstorms) and stormy gusts can be expected in several places in the central and then eastern regions. also”, they write.
The most precipitation is expected in the amount of 20 millimeters in Western Transdanubia, and the least with 5 millimeters in the Great Plain. From 22-30 degrees on Monday afternoon, it results in a maximum temperature of 12-19 degrees during the day on Tuesday, but the heat reminiscent of June met.hu according to his information, he can return again at the weekend.
It can be dangerous to go out into the air
The warm air coming with the southerly flow brought a significant amount of Saharan dust to the region, as a result of which the concentration of aerosol particles (PM10, airborne dust) is high across the country, the National Center for Public Health and Pharmaceuticals (NNGYK) announced on its Facebook page on Monday.
According to their information, larger particles of natural origin in the air also enter the respiratory system and can cause respiratory tract irritation or coughing even in the healthy population. Eye irritation is also a common symptom.
NNGYK recommends that the particularly vulnerable – children, pregnant women, people with chronic diseases and the elderly –
go outdoors only when absolutely necessary and avoid outdoor work, intense sports and other physical activities.
Exposure can be reduced by wearing a protective mask, they wrote.
Based on the meteorological forecast, a precipitation zone will arrive in Transdanubia in the late afternoon, thanks to which an improvement in air quality is expected, they informed.
March bids farewell with a 100-year heat record
The extremely hot summer weather continued on March 31, Easter Sunday, and three new heat records were set, HungaroMet Zrt. announced on its website on Monday.
They wrote: the temperature in the Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg counties fell to only 16.6 degrees Celsius even in the coolest hours of the day, thus breaking the national morning heat record for that day.
The previous record was 15 degrees, which was measured in 1926 in Kaposvár. The morning heat record was also broken in the capital: the temperature did not drop below 14.5 degrees in Zugliget. The new record is almost 2 degrees Celsius higher than the previous record of 12.6 degrees recorded at the Budapest Országút station in 1926, MTI quotes.
In addition, the daily maximum temperature record was broken in Budapest on Sunday: 25.1 degrees were measured in Pestszentlőrinc, which was 1 tenth of a degree higher than the record of 25.0 degrees registered on Ferihegy in 1989.
The sunrise on Easter Monday was reminiscent of June
On its Facebook page, HungaroMet Zrt. called the first hours of April “absolutely amazing”: even in the coldest corner of the country, Zabar, a value lower than 7.3 degrees was not measured. And in Jászszentlászló it was already almost hot at dawn, because the daytime warming there started at 17.4 degrees.
The national average of the minimum temperatures measured on Monday was 13.3 degrees, which practically corresponds to an average value at the beginning of June, they wrote. According to the infographic created for the post, between 1991 and 2020, the average daily minimum temperature on April 1 was around 2.89 degrees.
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