​January 2023 was the warmest first month of the year since complete weather data is available, surpassing the record-holding average of January 2007, according to ANM data sent to HotNews.ro. Constanța was the warmest, while several weather stations in the mountainous area averaged nearly 7 degrees Celsius above normal.

The average temperature across the country in January 2023 was +3.3 degrees. C, and the deviation from the median of the reference interval 1991-2020 was +5.4 gr. C. With these averages, January 2023 ranks first in the top ten warmest January months. The deviation is calculated for the period 1991-2020.

In January 2007, the national average was +3.0 C (ie 0.3 C below January 2023). In January 1994, the average temperature was +1.3 C, so far compared to 2007 and 2023. Other warm Januarys were in 1983, 1988 and 2014.

• Why the January heat is a completely unusual event

This chart covers the period from 1961 to 2023 and includes averages from over 120 weather stations. The year 1961 was chosen because since then all these weather stations have had long and continuous observation lines.

Where was the average January temperature very high compared to the 1991-2020 average? The average temperature in Intorsura Buzăului was 6.9 degrees Celsius above normal, in Brasov it was 6.7 degrees, and in Tirgu-Secuiesc and Joseni it was 6.5 degrees.

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

At Intorsura Buzăului, the maximum was a new January record of +15.5 C, while the average January temperature for the last 30 years was -4.5 C.

There was a deviation of more than 6 degrees at the weather stations in Feteşti, Satu Mare, Sfantu Gheorghe (Covasna), Baraolti, Sibiu, Bistrica, Fegerashi, Merkurja-Chuk and Tirgu-Lepus.

At many of these weather stations, the average January temperature is somewhere between -5 C and -2.5 C, but in 2023 there were extremely high average temperatures: +2.5 C in Intorsura Buzăului, +3.0 in Braşov, +2.6 in Sf Gheorghe (Kovasna), +3.8 C in Sibiu and +3.7 C in Bistrica.

Where was the warmest and coldest

The average January temperature had the lowest values ​​in Vf.Omu (-5.9 gr.C), Kelimani (-4.5 gr.C) ​​and Țarcu (-4.4 gr.C). more than 2000 m high.

The highest values ​​were in Constanta (6.9 gr.C), Mangalia (6.7 gr.C), Kalaras and Cernavode (5.8 gr.C), Feteshti. Mejidia and the Delta of St. George (5.7 gr.C)

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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.