- Meteorologists measured a record daily temperature of 22.2 °C in Gabčíkov.
- The record from 1926 was broken.
- A warm air flow caused exceptional conditions on November 1st.
- The highest average temperatures were recorded in the western and southwestern regions of Slovakia.
On November 1, meteorologists in Gabčíkov set a new all-Slovak maximum daily temperature record for that day, namely 22.2 degrees Celsius. The almost century-old record from November 1, 1926, when they measured 21.8 degrees Celsius in Hurbanov, was thus broken. The Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute (SHMÚ) informed about it on its website.
The flow of warm air from the south to the southwest and windier weather caused the maximum, average and minimum daily air temperatures to be high on November 1 and 2. According to SHMÚ, due to the influence of wind and clouds, after sunset in the evening it did not cool down as quickly as it usually does in this more advanced autumn period.
“November 1 was interesting, when the air temperature during the day in Gabčíkov reached 22.2 degrees Celsius. In this year’s colder October, the air temperature was higher in Slovakia only on October 23, when 22.4 degrees Celsius was registered in Žiharec and 22.8 degrees Celsius in Mužli,” experts said.
On Saturday (November 1), many records were also set for the average daily air temperature at individual meteorological stations in Slovakia. Their occurrence was mostly concentrated in the western and southwestern regions of Slovakia, for example Kuchyna (15.8 degrees Celsius), Senica (15.3), Myjava (14.3) or Kráľová pri Senec (15.4).
Meteorologists also described the values on Sunday (November 2) in Poprad as unusually high. There, they measured 12.1 degrees Celsius, breaking the original record of 11.6 degrees Celsius from November 2, 2018. “Remarkable is the record of the minimum daily air temperature from November 1 in Modra-Piesko, nine degrees Celsius, which, among other things, could also be a consequence of the application of a warm slope zone in some parts of the Small Carpathians,” added SHMÚ.
