Meteorologist discovered: Is the icy winter coming?

Meteorologist discovered: Is the icy winter coming?

Road workers across the country are working round the clock, while their work is hampered by snow, and some routes are impassable, while an emergency situation has been declared in Ivanjica, Guca, Sjenica, Krupanj, Lucani, Ljubovija and Nova Varos.

Meteorologist Ivan Ristic presented the latest weather forecast until the end of December.

According to him, the weather is expected to stabilize by the weekend, without precipitation and with low temperatures, but he notes that new precipitation is coming for the weekend, so the morning temperature will be around zero, and the daily temperature will be around 3-4 degrees, which will last till December 20th.

"It will be cold for the New Year," Ristic warns, adding:

"From December 20, the temperature will gradually fall with occasional snow. After December 20, icy days will come. Meteorologist Ristic emphasizes that on December 22 and 23, the daily temperature will be between -5 ° C and -6 ° C. All the way to the New Year, there is no thawing", says Ristic.

Ice winter

Heavy snowdrifts and high snowfall that paralyzed Serbia this weekend is reminiscent of the scenario from the icy year of 2012, when the Government of Serbia made the decision to declare a state of emergency in the entire country.

The winter of 2012 was remembered in Belgrade also because the Sava and the Danube were frozen for more than a month, but also because the snow fell even at temperatures below -10. In recent history, this winter is the coldest in Serbia. The wave of cold took 15 lives.

That year, the lowest temperatures were recorded in Serbia, Novi Sad and Negotin -27 ° C and Požega -26 ° C.

"That year can always come back, we just don't know when. There are no such conditions for now, but it's too early to say because we only know the forecast a month in advance," Ristic said.

The coldest winters in Serbia were in 1954, 1963, 1985, 1964, 2003... In Belgrade, the lowest winter temperature was recorded on January 10, 1893, and it was -26.2 degrees. One of the coldest winters in most of Serbia was in 1954, when the average temperature was 4.7. That winter, in Sjenica, on January 26, a temperature of -38 degrees was measured.

According to official RHMZ data, the 1954 record was broken three decades later. Namely, on the Pesterska valley, in Karajukića Bunari, the scale on the thermometer dropped to minus 39.5 degrees on January 13, 1985.

Considering that meteorological measurements have been carried out in Belgrade for more than 130 years, the coldest winter in the capital is the one from 1891, with an average of minus 4.5 degrees for all three months.