Once upon a time, in 1952, at a time when our meteorology was just developing, a particularly hot August was recorded in Serbia.
That August of 1952 held the title of the hottest for 72 years - before it was convincingly "overtaken" by August of 2024, by almost a full degree Celsius of average average temperature.
Now, just two years later, this record has been broken again. According to the data of RHMZ, it is August 2026 the warmest and second driest August ever recorded in Serbia.
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Although August was hot and dry in almost the entire territory of the country, several places stand out, writes Klima101.
According to maximum daily temperatures, the hottest city was Ćuprija. In Ćuprija this year, the average maximum daily temperature was an unbearable 36,5 °C.
In five other cities in Serbia, the average August day this year was a hot day (with a maximum temperature of 35 °C and above): Belgrade, Novi Sad, Kraljevo, Kruševac and Sombor.
In addition to being at the top in terms of hot days, Belgrade is once again the expected champion in the number and intensity of tropical nights (when the temperature does not drop below 20 °C): there were as many as 28 of them in the capital, out of a total of 31 August nights.
In addition to being at the top in terms of hot days, Belgrade is once again the expected champion in the number and intensity of tropical nights (when the temperature does not drop below 20 °C): there were as many as 28 of them in the capital, out of a total of 31 August nights. Only three nights offered normal respite from the heat.
But also in other parts of Serbia, tropical nights are becoming more and more common. This August, they were recorded at all measuring stations, except for Kopaonik, Sjenica, Zaječar and Dimitrovgrad.
After Belgrade, the most tropical nights were in Vojvodina cities such as Zrenjanin and Kikinda, where there were over 10 of them.
In addition to experiencing a particularly hot August, Palić also broke the record for the driest August in the history of measurements; the same record was broken in Niš.
Although other cities did not break absolute records for the amount, or lack of precipitation, at a large number of measuring stations throughout Serbia during this August, not even a tenth of the normal precipitation for this time of year fell.
Od low water levels do catastrophic fires, we greatly feel the consequences of such extreme weather conditions. But the problem is that even these records, apparently, will not last long.
We need to prepare for the future in which such occasions will be "normal" - and ask ourselves what the extremes will represent, and what kind of records will be broken then?
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