Poland recorded a record high of +40.5°C
On Sunday, June 28, in the Polish city of Słubice, meteorologists recorded an air temperature of +40.5°C, one of the highest readings in recent years. The record-breaking heat wave affected a significant part of the region, making weather conditions more challenging.
This was reported by Agnieszka Prasek, a spokesperson for the Polish Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (IMGW). According to her, the data consists of telemetric and operational measurements taken throughout the day.
“We can say this is a new record. These are telemetric and real-time data measured hourly. Weather stations, on the other hand, measure temperature at specific times,” Prasek noted.
The highest temperature in the country was recorded in Słubice—+40.5°C. At the same time, across nearly all of Poland, with the exception of the northwestern regions, daytime temperatures exceeded 30 degrees.
The IMGW also reported another high reading—at the weather station in Toruń, the temperature reached +40.3°C; however, this value was not included in the overall map of maximum temperatures.
The previous temperature record for modern-day Poland had stood for over a century. It was set on July 29, 1921, in Pruszków near Opole—at that time, thermometers read +40.2°C.
In the postwar period, the highest temperature had previously been recorded in Słubice—in July 1994, temperatures there reached +39.5°C. Tvn24 reports on this.
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