Belgrade: The hottest October ever, with one unpleasant precedent

During October in Belgrade, we witnessed unusually warm weather. Instead of putting on jackets and coats, short-sleeved shirts would often be enough to get us through the day, even outside.

As the portal writes Climate 101, now we have a confirmation from the Institute of Meteorology at the Faculty of Physics for our subjective feeling about October temperatures. As their preliminary analyzes show, Belgrade has the warmest October in the history of measurements.

The preliminary mean monthly temperature of 18,6 °C, recorded during October this year, is the highest mean October temperature in the Serbian capital since 1887.

October 2023 took over the title of record holder from October 1966 when the average monthly temperature was 18,15 °C.

According to the Institute, last month there were twelve days with a maximum daily temperature over 25 °C (summer days), of which one day was with a maximum daily temperature over 30 °C.

During October, another unpleasant precedent happened for us.

In the night between Friday (October 20) and Saturday (October 21), the minimum measured temperature was as low as 22,6 °C. According to the data that can be found in the Global Historical Climatology Network database, this is the first October tropical night (a night during which temperatures do not fall below 20 °C) registered in Belgrade since 1936.

The previous highest minimum daily temperature was recorded on October 29, 2018, and was 19,8 °C. This means that during this October, the monthly record was broken by almost three degrees Celsius. It was the latest tropical night ever registered in the capital during the year, since tropical nights, quite expectedly, have never been recorded during November and December.

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