Weather bureau: Bulgaria’s November 2024 coldest since 2012
November 2024 in Bulgaria has been the country’s coldest November since 2012, the national meteorological bureau said.
Average monthly temperatures were between three and eight degrees Celsius, deviating from the monthly average by between minus 2.5 and zero degrees C, the bureau said.
The highest measured temperature was 24.7 degrees Celsius on November 2 in Pazardzhik.
The lowest minimum temperature at a weather station in a populated place was minus 9.3 degrees Celsius on November 8 in Samokov, and the lowest temperature measured on a mountain peak was minus 16.4 degrees Celsius on Mount Musala on November 24.
In Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia, the highest measured temperature was 18.4 degrees Celsius on November 2, and the lowest, minus 5.8 degrees Celsius on November 24.
Up to November 28, in most of the country, the monthly amounts of rain were around the climatic norm.
During the last two days of the month, there will be significant falls of rain and snow. The bureau said that on these two days, the weather will be determined by a Mediterranean cyclone forming south of the country.
There will be rain in Western and Central Bulgaria. As the temperatures drop in the Pre-Balkans and at high altitudes, the rain will change to snow.
In November, water quantities of the rivers in the country are below the average water thresholds and around the low water thresholds.
As a result of the rains that fell in the second half of the month, short-term, insignificant increases in river levels were registered throughout the country.
In the last days of November, as a result of rainfall, the river levels in the Danube, Eastern Aegean and West Aegean watersheds will rise, the bureau said.
In November, in most of the country’s agricultural regions, with the exception of some eastern ones, the precipitation fell below the monthly norm, and soil moisture reserves were unusually low for the last month of autumn.
In places in the central and southern regions, due to a lack of soil moisture, the winter cereals failed to germinate.
As a result of the prolonged autumn drought, a large part of the winter cereal crops are weak, in the initial stage of development, and the crops are of uneven density, the report said.
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