The last day of winter in Kyiv was record warm

The last day of February in Kyiv was unusually warm. Meteorologists recorded two temperature records — for maximum and average daily air temperature.

This is reported by the Central Geophysical Observatory named after Borys Sreznevskyi.

The maximum air temperature reached 12.1 °C, which is 2.8 °C higher than the previous record for this day, recorded in 2008.

The average daily air temperature was the highest on record for this day and reached 5 °C, which exceeded the previous record of 2016 by 0.4 °C.

• Two temperature records were also set in Kyiv in mid-February. The minimum air temperature was +3.1 °С, which exceeded the record value of 1997 by 1.1 °С. And the average daily air temperature in the capital turned out to be the highest for that day and reached +5.0 °С. This exceeded the previous record, which had been held since 1975, by 0.6 °С. In total, six temperature records were broken in Kyiv during the first half of February.