Abnormal heat: three temperature records were set in Kyiv on Sunday
- Author:
- Oleksandr Ruban
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On Sunday, August 27, the Borys Sreznevsky Central Geophysical Observatory recorded three heat records.
The night on Sunday became the warmest, the temperature did not drop below +21.3 °C. The previous record was set in 2022, when the temperature reached +20.5 °C.
The maximum air temperature in the afternoon reached +33.3 °С — this is a record since 1943.
The average daily air temperature turned out to be the highest during the observation period and amounted to +26.9 °С, which exceeded the previous record of last year by 2.3 °С, and the climatic norm — by 8.0 °С.
- This summer, the weather station recorded other weather records in the capital. On July 7, Kyiv recorded a record amount of precipitation — 51.9 mm, which exceeded the previous record of 1978 by 21.6 mm.
- According to the World Weather Attribution study, record heat around the world is linked to climate change, and extreme weather may recur every few years.