The hottest days of the year are expected in Romania, with temperatures up to 42 degrees expected. This is not far from the temperature record recorded in our country more than 70 years ago.

On August 10, 1951, the absolute maximum monthly temperature of + 44.5 degrees Celsius was recorded in the city of Ion Zion in Braila County.

The first known national temperature record was +42.8 degrees in the summer of 1896 in Giurgiu, a record that stood for 20 years when it was exceeded by a tenth of a degree. Three decades later, the record would be taken over by Strehaj: a temperature of +43.5 was registered in September 1946, an extremely dry year.

In 2007, the July heatwave was one of the most severe, with several places seeing ten days in a row with highs above +35. Calafat recorded +44.3 degrees, the highest temperature recorded in the country in the last 56 years.

In 2012 there were several heat waves, there were record nights with minimums above +25 degrees, and in many places they exceeded +40 degrees, culminating in +43.5 degrees in Giurgiu.

In 2015, heat waves of varying intensity were observed in June, July, August and September with a maximum at the end of July. After mid-September, the temperature in Banat was above +37 degrees.

• History of heat waves in Romania, from 1896 to 2021 – from +22 degrees at the top of the mountain to over +44 degrees in Bărăgan