Bulgaria’s winter 2024/2025 was relatively warm, but still the coldest in six years
The winter of 2024/2025 in Bulgaria was again relatively warm, but was the country’s coldest in the past six years, the national meteorological bureau said in a regular report.
It also saw more precipitation that the past three winter seasons, the report said.
December and January were relatively warm, but February was the coldest since 2013, making this winter the coldest in six years, it said.
The highest recorded temperature was 23 degrees Celsius on January 28 in Veliko Turnovo.
The lowest minimum temperature at a weather station in a settlement was minus 22.5 degrees Celsius on February 22 in the town of Glavinitsa, Silistra district, and the lowest temperature measured on a mountain peak was minus 23.1 degrees Celsius on Musala on February 20.
Seasonal precipitation amounts in most of the country are around or above the climatic norm, which was mainly due to significant precipitation in December, because January and February were relatively dry.
The heaviest snowfalls occurred during the period December 23-27, but mainly in the Fore-Balkans and on the northern slopes of the mountains.
The highest snow cover in a settlement was measured on December 27 in the village of Manastir, Smolyan region, 115 cm, and on a mountain peak, 185 cm on Botev Peak on January 13, the bureau said.
(Photo: Clive Leviev-Sawyer)
