End of April or mid-January? In two days, the January temperature in Romania exceeded 20 degrees Celsius, more than in a decade of weather measurements. What records and first times were the most spectacular? Where in the last 85 years was it above +20 C in January?

Premiere weather for January 2023 in Romania

• absolute maximum temperature for the first month of the year

• the temperature is above 20 C in the north-east of the country

• setting new absolute heat records at more than 70 weather stations

• temperatures above +15 C at the “poles of cold”, dr and in the mountains above 1500 m above sea level.

Absolute records for January at more than 70 weather stations

January 2023 has a chance to be the warmest on record, or at least second. January 2007 was the warmest in the last 60 years.

In January 2023, there were five days with temperatures above +20 C, and the 18th and 19th brought highs of more than 22 degrees in the south and broke the temperature record in Bucharest, Iasi, Brasov, Mercure-Cuc, Intorsura-Buzeului and many other cities . , according to ANM data.

A 100-year-old weather record was broken twice in two days

This is the second time in the country that it is more than +22 degrees in the first month of the year. This happened only in 2001, and also only at two weather stations (Oravica and Resita).

The temperature above 20 degrees appeared once every few decades in January, now everything is completely different, as you can read at the end of the article?

ANM data shows that more than 70 weather stations have broken the January absolute temperature record due to heat on January 1, 2, 3, 18 and 19.

Winter is like spring, and spring is like summer…

When the absolute record is broken, it is by several tenths of a degree, but there were weather stations where it was exceeded by more than 3 degrees. For example, in Bucharest Băneasa the record was 17.1°C (since 2002), on January 18 it was +20.6°C (3.5°1 more) and on January 19 it was +20.9°C, so another breakthrough.

The weather station that holds the new absolute national record for January – Turnu Măgurele with +22.5 C – saw its old record “broken” by 3 degrees (+19.5 C on the last day of January 2002).

• Absolute temperature record in the country for January – where it was over 22 degrees

Beche became the city where the second highest temperature was recorded this month (+22.3 C). The record was +20 degrees (also from January 2002), on Wednesday it was +21.7 degrees, and on Thursday the temperature exceeded 22 degrees.

Joseni commune in Harghita is one of the “poles of cold”. First, on January 18, 2023, the January heat record of +12 C, set in 1925, was broken, and then again on January 19 (+13.4 C). And in other cold places there were absolute records: Merkurya-Chuk (+15) and Intorsura-Buzeului (+15.5 C). The maximum values ​​of the period in these settlements were about -2, -1 C.

And in Brasov, the old record of January 9, 2010, when it was +14.7 C, was significantly exceeded. On Thursday, it was +17 degrees. Also impressive is the new record from Sinai, height 1500, +16.4 C, which is two degrees higher than the previous record.

The temperature of 20-22 degrees Celsius in January is 15-17 degrees above normal and is the maximum that is usually observed after April 20. The difference is that in April, if it is +21°C at noon, the minimum is 6-8°C, while in Bucharest Băneasa, where it was +20.9°C at noon, the minimum on the night of January 19 was +1. 6 S.

In conditions of a much warmer climate after April 20, the temperature in the south of the country was above +32, and in the mountains above +25, Winter is like spring, and spring is like summer…

However, there were also extremely high lows: +14.7 C in Giurgiu and +14 C in Zimnica, overnight lows that can be seen in these cities even on the cooler nights of July! On January 20, there was another extremely high minimum: +12.9 degrees in Kalarashi. This city also had a maximum on January 20, +19 degrees, and at 5 p.m. the temperature on the map looked unreal: it was +17 degrees in Kalarashi, in the west of the country, in the area of ​​the village. Timisoara, +1 C in Redeuca and +11 in several places in Transylvania.

Very rarely was +20 C in January, the first such exact temperature was in Campina on January 19, 1939. Three years before that, in 1936, January brought a high of +19.8C in Jurja and +19C in Mangalia, ANM data show. Also, on January 16, 1939, it was +18 C in Kampulung-Muscel, and +18.4 C in Tg-Okna.

In the last century, very few maximums above +20 C were recorded in January, while in 2023 such maximums were also for the first time in Moldova (Redeuci, Botosani, Ajud).

Examples of temperatures over 20 degrees recorded in January over the past 85 years

1939-1989 years

+20.6 C in Campina, January 19, 1939

+20.5 C in Ploiesti, January 19, 1939

+20.7 Karansebesh, January 19, 1939

+20.4 C in Calafat, January 2, 1984

90s

+20.5 C in Calafat on January 22, 1993

+20 C in Pâtârlagele on January 18, 1993

After 2000

+22.2 C in Oravice on January 7, 2001 – an absolute record until a few days ago

+22 C in Reshita on January 7, 2001

+20.7 in Karansebesh on January 7, 2001

+20.5 C in Lugozh on January 7, 2001

+20.6 C in Tirgu Jiu on January 29, 2002

+ 20.4 C in Kraiów on January 29, 2002

+ 20.2 C in Tirgovishte, January 30, 2002.

+20.7 C Ploiesti, January 30, 2002

+ 20 C in Beshe on January 30, 2002

+ 20 in Apa Neagră, January 30, 2002

+ 20 C in Curtia de Arges, January 9, 2005

2023 year

+ 20.2 C in Redeuka, January 1, 2023

+ 20.1 C in Tirgu-Okna, January 1, 2023

+ 20 in Botoshan, January 1, 2023

+21.3 C in Partridges, January 2, 2023

+21.2 C in Tirgovishte, January 2, 2023

+20.8 C in Campina, January 2, 2023

+20.2 C in Pitesti, January 2, 2023

+20.7 C in Curtia de Arges, January 3, 2023

January 18, 2023 is an absolute record day

Magurele Tower +22.5 C

Winter +21.8 C

It was +21.7 C

Alexandria +20.9

Kalarash +20.9 C

Caracal +20.8 C

Giurgiu +20.7 C

Bucharest Banyasa +20.6 C

Oltenite +20.6 C

Bucharest Filaret +20.3 C

Feteshti +20.3 C

From +20.3 C,

Old Moldova +20.3 C

Adjust +20.2 C

Rosiori de Veda +20.2 C

Harshova +20 C

Chernavoda +20 C.

December 19, 2023 is another day with a temperature above 22 degrees

Beche = 22.3 C

Magurele Tower +21.8 C

Winter +21.7 C

Bucharest Banyasa +20.9 C

Oltenite +20.9 C

Giurgiu +20.7 C

Feteshti +20.7 C

Riders +20.6 C.

Tirgu-Okna +20.5 C

Alexandria +20.3 C

Chernavoda +20