Weather bureau: Water levels in Bulgaria in October 2024 below average thresholds
In October, the water quantities of the rivers in Bulgaria are below the average water thresholds and around the low water thresholds, the national weather bureau said in a preliminary report on October 31.
As a result of rainfall from October 5 to 7 and October 10 to 13, there were short-term increases in river levels in Bulgaria, more significant on the Iskar River near the town of Novi Iskar.
Throughout the month, the Fakiyska river in the area of the village of Zidarovo had dried up.
In most of the country, the monthly amounts of rain were below the climatic norm.
There were weather stations in southern Bulgaria that registered no rain, for example Sandanski and Sadovo.
October 2024 has more rain than October 2023, but it remains one of the driest Octobers in Bulgaria since the beginning of the century.
The largest measured 24-hour amount of precipitation was 44mm of rain in Gorna Banya quarter, Sofia, on October 6.
October 2024 was cooler than October 2023, the report said.
Average monthly temperatures were between 10 and 16 degrees Celsius and deviated from the monthly norm between minus 1 and plus 3 degrees Celsius.
The highest measured temperature was 34.2 degrees Celsius on October 4 in Chirpan in the Stara Zagora district.
The lowest minimum temperature at a station in a populated place was minus 6 degrees Celsius on October 21 in Chepelare in the Smolyan district, and the lowest temperature measured on a mountain peak was minus 6.9 degrees Celsius on the Musala peak on October 1.
In Sofia, the highest measured temperature was 27.5 degrees Celsius on October 4, and the lowest, minus 0.7 degrees Celsius on October 20.
In October, the drought deepened in most of Bulgaria and hindered the sowing of winter cereals and the normal progress of the initial phases of the vegetation of the sown autumn crops, with the exception of some northeastern regions, for example in the Dobrich agricultural station, the report said.
In places in the northwestern regions (Knezha and Bazovets agricultural stations) and in the southern regions (Kyustendil, Sandanski, Plovdiv, Pazardzhik and Chirpan agricultural stations) there is no productive moisture in the 50cm soil layer, and in 100cm the level of moisture reserves is very low – below 50 per cent of the marginal field moisture content.
(Photo: Clive Leviev-Sawyer)
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