Balkan countries are reporting that the summer of 2024 was the hottest since the measurements started more than 130 years ago. There were long periods with temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius or 86 degrees Fahrenheit. And the mercury often didn’t fall below 20 degrees Celsius or 68 Fahrenheit overnight.
A man collects mud that is used in medical therapy from the Rusanda salty lake that has dried out completely, near Melenci, Serbia , Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. Experts say the summer of 2024 in the Balkans was the hottest since measurements started more than 130 years ago. The Rusanda salty lake, of which its mud is used in medical therapy, has dried out completely, near Melenci, Serbia , Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024.
Experts say the summer of 2024 in the Balkans was the hottest since measurements started more than 130 years ago. Long periods with“Summer normally means exchange of hot days with high temperatures and then a break after five to six days with rain and thunderstorms,” Serbian meteorologist Nedeljko Todorovic said. “But this happened only in June. Practically entire July and August had no rain while high temperatures persisted.
Southeast Europe was “trapped” this summer under a subtropical warm air mass from Western Africa and the Mediterranean Sea area, said Goran Pejanovic, from Serbia’s Hydrometeorological Service. The summer in Slovenia passed without cooler periods that are normal for the mountainous country, the report said. Record high temperatures weren’t found in the lowlands, but rather at higher altitudes in the Julian Alps while temperatures throughout the country remained above 30 C in early September.
Heat waves are hotter, longer and more frequent, and some parts of the world are also experiencing longer and more frequent droughts. The world has warmed on average around 1.2 degrees Celsius since preindustrial times. Meteorologists in Montenegro said that temperatures overnight in some towns were as high as 29 C .North Macedonia struggled with around 2,000 forest fires in the past three months, three times more than in 2023. The fires destroyed tens of thousands of acres of forests. Emergency official Stojanche Angelov warned that “it is not over yet ... if it doesn’t rain soon, we will have wildfires until November.
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