​These days will be the first of the year with maximums above 35 degrees, but there was also a case when such a temperature was reached already on April 10. Another time the threshold was exceeded in mid-October. Where and when was it over 35 degrees in the spring, and even in the middle of autumn? Which cities have the hottest days?

35 degrees since the first part of spring

Extreme heat came on April 10, 1985, when +35.5 C was recorded in Beche, a record temperature for April at the national level. At that time, the temperature in Beche is usually +18°C, so the record set the temperature 17°C above average.

There were no other April episodes with +35 C. At the beginning of May 2003, there were hot days (for example, +37.5 C in Calarasi on May 3). The temperature above 35 C in May is extremely rare.

The oldest record of +35 C, which has not been exceeded, dates back to May 16, 1889, when this temperature was recorded in Satu Mare.

At the Bucharest Băneasa weather station on May 13, 1958 it was +36.9 C, and on May 17, 1969 it was +35.1 C.

On May 19, 1996, it was +35 degrees in Buzau. In Iasi, on May 27, 1950, it was +36.4 C, and on May 16, 1969, it was +35.1 C.

35 degrees in the middle of autumn

On October 15, 1993, it was +35.4°C in Calarasi. In addition, it was +35.9 C on October 7, 1984, and +35.3 C the day before, Calaras is the weather station with the most heat records during autumn.

On October 6 and 7, 1984, maximum temperatures in Giurgi were over 35 degrees (more precisely +35.2 C, respectively +36.6 C).

In Bucharest on October 2, 1952, it was +35.5°C at Filaret station and +35.2°C at Băneasa. It was also +35.3°C in Buzau at that time. In 1987, at the end of September, there was a day with a temperature above 35 degrees: +35.8 degrees in Benias and +35 degrees in Filaret.

The last autumn heat wave was between 17 and 19 September 2015, when the highs reached +37.3 C in Bozovići (Karas-Severin County), +36.6 in Vărădia de Mureș and Săcuieni and +35.2 C in Campeni. In Kampen, at an altitude of 583 m, the maximum temperature averages around 20 C on 18 September.

Where are the most days with a temperature above 35 degrees

One of the strongest heat waves was between 15 and 25 July 2007, and many southern cities had ten consecutive days with a maximum above +35 (e.g. Calarasi, Drobeta-Turnu-Severin and Bucharest). Drobeta-Turnu-Severin also had three days with highs above 40C, and Sulin had over 20 “tropical” nights that month (with lows not falling below 20C).

Drobeta-Turnu-Severin had 16 hot days in July 2012 and July 2015 and 11 days in July 2021. August 1992 had 21 hot days, and August 2003 had 13 days. In July 2022, there were six hot days in Satu Mare.

Calafate had 29 days with temperatures above 35 degrees last year, and 38 days in 2021. In 2018, when the summer was the coldest in the last decade, there were only 8 hot days, and the maximum occurred in September.

Tourne-Magurele had 28 hot days last year and 27 in 2021. In 2018, there was only one day (June 13, +35.3 C).

Last year, Giurgi had 23 hot days, and in 2021 – 17. In the summer of 2018, there was only one day.

There were 25 hot days in Beche last year, and 33 the day before last. In 2018, there were only four of them.

Bucharest Filaret had 29 hot days last year and 17 days in 2021. In 2018, there were only two days.

Where it can never be 35 degrees

At an altitude of more than 1000 meters, there can never be maxima above 35 C, and at 600-700 m such values ​​can be reached once or twice per decade. In Predial, the absolute maximum was +33.2°C, in Brasov +37.3°C, and in Merkurya-Chuk +36°C. In Yoseny, 750 m away, the absolute maximum was +35.7°C.

Summers were unusually cool in the 1970s, with highs in Drobeta-Turnu-Severin, for example, not exceeding 35 C in 1975 and 1976.

In recent decades, they have not exceeded 35 degrees, even in one of the warmest places in the country: the city of Sulina in the Delta, a place that is also famous for its small temperature difference between night and day. In Sulin in 1946 it was +37.5 C, and in this century in the summer of 2019 and 2010 it was over 34 C.