August was from the perspective of rainfall in the north of central and eastern Slovakia Suchý to very dry. In the rest of the territory as wet to very damp, sporadically in the Hron basin as extremely damp. The Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute (SHMI) informed about it on its website.
- August was dry in the northeast, wet in most of the territory.
- The cold front caused a rise in levels in several watercourses.
- The groundwater recorded below -average levels in most basins.
- The overall rating of the SHMI was identified by August as below -average groundwater.
- The hydrological situation was settled most of the month.
“Based on operational data in terms of average monthly flows, we have ranked this month among the dry months despite extraordinary to extremely high rainfall in the last days of the month,” The meteorologists reported. In the area of the Little and the White Carpathians and in the Bodrog River Basin, they evaluated a month in places as extremely dry. This year’s August, according to SHMI, was manifested as drier compared to last year in the southern and eastern basins of Slovakia (Ipeľ, Bodva, Hornád, Bodrog) and more aqueous in the Danube and Moravia basins.
The hydrological situation on most streams was steady during the first two decades of August. “On 21 and 22 August, the corrugated cold front advanced through the territory of Slovakia. Ascension to a significant rise in water levels we recorded on the streams in the Nitra basin, Žitava, Horní Bodva, Dolny Torysa, Lower Hornád, Hron, Ipli, Slaná and Rimava. Bodrog, ” The Institute claims. According to him, a similar situation was repeated at the end of August, when the undulating cold front was influenced by the part of the Ipľa, Hron and the Turks, with the first stage of flood activity in the Hron flood activity.
Experts explained that in August there was a deterioration in the groundwater situation in almost all basins except Moravia and Slaná, due to longer periods without the occurrence of atmospheric precipitation. “Compared to long -term diameters, up to 85 percent of the total number of monitored objects, the values of groundwater levels and sources have reached lower values, of which 13 percent of the buildings were supported by a long -term minimum,” SHMI said.
The above -average state persisted in the Moravia basin, on the contrary, the state of drought persisted in the Bodrog basin. Meteorologists in the Hornád basin found the average to slightly below average. In the remaining basins (Bodva, Dunajec and Poprad, Hron, Ipeľ, Slaná, Váh) there was an below -average condition of the groundwater level and the yield of springs. “Overall, the month of August was evaluated as below average in the groundwater,” added the Hydrometeorological Institute.
