April 2024 ranked eighth out of 250 Aprils since the beginning of available names, so it would be among the top 10 percent of warmest events, meteorologists said.
According to them, the first half of April, with an average temperature of 16.1 degrees Celsius, was the hottest of all the first halves of April since 1775, while the second half, with a temperature of 10.6 degrees Celsius, did not deviate from the average values. The ten-day period from April 16 to 25, with an average temperature of 7.1 degrees, was relatively cold, but far from extreme, stated the employees of the Czech hydrometeorological state (HM).
The deviation of the average temperature of this April of 13.4 degrees from the so-called normal from 1991 and 2020 was plus 1.9 degrees Celsius. The deviation from the long-term average, which took place between 1775 and 2014, reached plus 3.9 degrees.
Due to the very cold nature of the second half of April, meteorologists pointed out that frosts in the fourth month of the year are no exception. Out of 250 Aprils since 1775, 29 Aprils had an average daily temperature of less than zero degrees in Klementin. And not only in two periods, but also, for example, in 2003, when on April 6 the average daily temperature was minus 0.4 degrees, said HM.
The warmest April in the last 250 years was recorded by meteorologists in the center of the capital in 1800. The average mass temperature then reached 16.2 degrees. The warmest type was April 2018 with an average temperature of 15.6 degrees and this April 2009 with an average temperature of 15.1 degrees Celsius.
On the contrary, the coldest April since 1775 came to Praan in 1839, with an average temperature of only 4.9 degrees Celsius. The kind of coldest was April 1817 with an average temperature of five degrees, and April 1785 with an average temperature of 5.4 degrees Celsius.
In Klementin, which is in the historic center of Prague, weather has been observed since 1775. Although the name of this station is influenced by any number of factors, for example the location of the small instrument in the Klementin complex or the location in the very center of the city, according to the meteorologist, it represents for modern science a unique and extremely valuable a source of information about the state of weather and climate in modern history.
