The meteorological summer is over, in the center of Prague it was the fifth warmest since 1775
This summer in Prague’s Klementin became the warmest since 1775, when the weather was recorded at this oldest station in the Czech Republic. The average temperature from the beginning of June to the end of August reached 22.2 degrees Celsius. He reported to the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (ČHMÚ) on its information website. Meteorological autumn began today and will last until the end of November.
The average temperature this summer in Clementine was 1.5 degrees higher than meteorology normally based on data from 1991 to 2020. The deviation from the long-term average from 1775 to 2014 was plus 3.2 degrees Celsius.
“That summer ranked fifth in average temperature among the 2,488 summer seasons since 1775, making it among the top two percent of warmest summer seasons during that period,” meteorologists said.
They measured all five of the warmest summer seasons in Klementin this millennium. The warmest summer since 1775 was in 20019 with an average temperature of 22.9 degrees, followed by 2018, 2003, 2015 and 2022. The summer of 1834, with an average temperature of 22.1 degrees Celsius, ranks sixth after this summer. The coldest summer since 1775 was in 1844 with an average temperature of 16.4 degrees.
This year’s June, with an average temperature of 22.3 degrees Celsius, became the warmest in the last 248 years. July was slightly cooler, the monthly temperature was exactly 22 degrees on average, but it was still among the ten percent of the warmest Julys recorded so far. In August, they measured the average temperature in Klementin as in June, i.e. 22.3 degrees. August 2022 was ranked eighth in the historical table.
In Klementin, located in the historic center of Prague, the weather has been monitored mainly since 1775. Although the measurements at this station are offered by a number of factors, for example the location of the measuring devices within the area or the location in the very center of the city, according to meteorologists, they represent a unique and extremely valuable source of information for modern science about the state of weather and climate in modern history.