As the weather experts from Ubimet and UWZ reported on Friday afternoon, there was actually an all-time heat record on this New Year’s Eve in Austria: In Berndorf in the Lower Austrian district of Baden, the thermometer showed a whopping 18.3 degrees Celsius – the highest value since the start of recording.
Just behind followed – also in Lower Austria – Reichenau an der Rax with 18 degrees and Wiener Neustadt with 17.8 degrees. In Mörbisch (Burgenland) 17.6 degrees were measured and in Krems an der Donau (Lower Austria) 17.3 degrees. In the federal capital, too, the temperature display scratched the 17-degree mark, measured exactly 16.8 degrees on the Donaufeld in Floridsdorf. The reason for the unusually warm weather is – krone.at reported – the influence of a high pressure area called “Christine”. “We are experiencing the warmest New Year’s Eve in Austria since the weather records began,” reported the Unwetterzentrale (UWZ) shortly before 3 p.m. Partly “permafrost” in Carinthia However, it was not as warm everywhere as in Berndorf. In Carinthia, for example, “it stayed partly with permafrost”, reported the UWZ: In Hermagor and Bad Bleiberg, people froze at an icy minus 1.1 degrees Celsius. The turn of the year is at least dry in terms of weather and especially in the Alps and in the east the sky is often even starry. “The wind freshened up from the Mostviertel via the Vienna Basin to Northern Burgenland, lively to strong, from the west, in the second half of the night from the Hohe Wand to the thermal region, stormy gusts are to be expected in places,” predicts Manfred Spatzierer, chief meteorologist of the UWZ Often sunny in the south and west On Saturday, New Year’s Day, compact clouds pass through the north and northeast, but apart from a few raindrops it remains dry and during the day the sun comes out from time to time in the eastern flatlands. From Vorarlberg to southern Burgenland, sunshine usually predominates, only in the lowlands there can be fog in places. You can find all details about the Austrian weather here. In the northeast, strong northwest winds initially blow, which subsides during the day. The temperatures are still above the seasonal mean with a maximum of four to 15 degrees. According to the current status, a cooling is only in sight towards the middle of the coming week.
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