Prague: Coldest January Since 1940

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There was 1 additional twenty-four lx minutes menses left but fifty-fifty alongside the extra unknown twenty-four lx minutes menses (plus hours), it was already virtually for certain yesterday that Jan 2017 would live the coldest Jan inward Prague since 1940 (as Novinky.cz word server reported) as well as the 4th coldest Jan since the measurements began inward Prague's Klementinum (near the Charles Bridge) around 250 years ago. The province of affairs is similar inward all of Central Europe as well as beyond. For example, the "march over the frozen Lake Balaton" has attracted many to a greater extent than Hungarian people than the annual "swim over Balaton" – partly because many people are improve at walking than swimming, I justice LOL.




The average Jan temperature inward Klementinum has been –2.8 degrees Celsius. The coldest Januaries saw these temperatures instead:

1. 1779: –9.3 °C = 15.3 °F
2. 1838: –9.2 °C = 15.4 °F
3. 1940: –8.8 °C = 16.2 °F
4. 2017: –7.0 °C = 19.4 °F (prelim.)

The meteorologists blame the mutual coldness air from the Northeast (or "Finland") as well as frequent inversions. 23 out of 31 Jan days were "icy days" i.e. days when the temperature doesn't acquire to a higher house the freezing signal (32 °F), as well as it may live 24 days alongside the 50% probability because the high is forecast to live 0 °C = 32 °F inward Prague today. The Czech give-and-take for January, "leden", is derived from "led" which agency "ice".



H5N1 graph of Klementinum Jan temperatures, 1770-2009, according to a file I used inward 2010. The numbers apparently don't coincide alongside those reported today. My 2010 file would solely brand –7 °C = 19.4 °F the thirteenth coldest temperature as well as the coldest since 1942.

I hope that dissimilar some Czech idiots who accept complained nether the master copy article, yous empathise that –7 °C was the average temperature over the 31 days as well as over days as well as nights etc. The "coolest inward 77 years" doesn't hateful that the temperature didn't decrease below –7 °C at private moments (or days) earlier the 1940s as well as 2017.




You may cheque the Wikipedia climate tabular array for Prague. It's the ultimate moderate zone. In the 1981-2010 period, the daily hateful is written as –1.4 °C = 29.5 °F for Jan as well as +18.2 °C = 64.8 °F for July (warmest month) alongside the annual average of +8.4 °C. That's only a flake higher than the Czech average to a higher house +8 °C = 46 °F or as well as then as well as noticeably lower than the Klementinum information inward the graph at the top. I justice that the Wikipedia information refer to the "bulk of Prague" piece Klementinum is the warmest weather condition station inward Czech Republic (and thence also Prague).

According to the Klementinum graph at the top, yous could enjoin that the annual hateful temperature was decreasing from +10 °C = 50 °F inward the belatedly 18th century to +9 °C = 48 °F around 1900 as well as returned to +10 °C = 50 °F as well as perchance +11 °C = 52 °F inward recent years. The parabolic check looks pretty proficient but it's every bit obvious that the values are noisy, a random walk of a generalized sort, as well as that it could live really foolish to extrapolate whatsoever of these interpolations.

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Generous supporter of arts as well as sciences Emperor Rudolph II – who made Prague the uppercase of the Holy Roman Empire in 1 lawsuit again – introduced the "carnival on ice" (with skates) to the Moldau. After 1700, the habit in conclusion spread all over Czech Republic (exactly 3,000 years later the natives inward Alaska as well as Kamchatka began to skate on walrus tusks), despite the alarm yesteryear the instructor of nations John Amos Comenius who described skating as "dangerous as well as undignified". The Moldau was getting frozen around every twelvemonth inward the 19th century. The tendency at the elevation makes it unsurprising that these episodes became exceptions since the early on 20th century but at that spot were nonetheless hundreds of skaters or sledges inward 1950, for example: some kids were nonetheless learning to skate on the Moldau.

The freezing became around impossible later the Orlík Dam was built on the Moldau inward Southern Bohemia inward 1954-1961. Why is it so? Because the H2O is leaving the dam nearly from the bottom where its temperature is rather high, only about 4 °C = 39 °F (where the density is maximal) as well as there's non plenty fourth dimension for the river to live cooled again. Now, inward Jan 2017, skaters returned to the Moldau but they are "rare brave exceptions". The H2O ice thickness never surpasses six cm over there. I justice that some of the rivers of Pilsen are frozen to a greater extent than thoroughly but the Pilsner folks prefer our largest Pond of Bolevec that is frozen actually massively now. It's amount of skaters as well as cross-country skiers.

For 2 weeks, the sometime snowfall survived hither because the temperature didn't arrive to a higher house the melting signal for besides long. But at that spot no novel precipitation. However, nosotros in conclusion got some novel snowfall today as well as it's snowing exterior piece I am typing this sentence. Because of the inversions, some troubled industrial hubs including Pilsen accept also suffered from some smog later a really long time. The Czech mountains accept lots of snow, upwards to 150 cm inward portions of the Bohemian Forest: the province of affairs differs from some recent years when skiing was impossible as well as skiing races were sometimes canceled.