[Dave K]

Looks like the record April high temp for Poland was broken again yesterday with 31.7 °C at Tomaszów Mazowiecki ( Łódź )

http://www.ogimet.co...&min=0&ndays=30

[Dave K]

"Tropical Night" in parts of Switzerland

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Associated with the foehn coming from North Africa and the Sahara desert air, ensured minima over the 20-degree mark - a so-called tropical night - at some stations north of the Alps, particularly in eastern Switzerland and of course the Föhntälern. In Zurich and Ebnat-Kappel, the thermometer dropped to just 20 degrees, to 21.3 in Wädenswil on Lake Zurich, Lucerne and to 22.3 degrees to 22.9 degrees in Altenrhein. The result of a preliminary statistical analysis shows that those tropical nights in April were measured for the first time since records began at these stations.

http://www.meteoswis...nsturm_und.html

[Dave K]

Confirmation of the new April high temperature records for Austria, nationally and regionally.

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Hitze-Rekorde: Österreich-April-Rekord in Waidhofen/Ybbs mit 32,0 Grad (am 28.4.) und neue Bundesländerrekorde in Vorarlberg (Bregenz 31,2 °C), Tirol (Kufstein 31,2 °C), Salzburg (Salzburg 31,5 °C), Oberösterreich (Braunau 31,8 °C), Wien (Innere Stadt 30,0 °C) und dem Burgenland (Neusiedl/See 30,6 °C).

http://www.zamg.ac.a...2-04-30GMT11:03

[Dave K]

New April record for Belarus too.

Lel'chitsy 31.0 ­°C on the 29th beating 30.7 °C at Brest on 22/04/1950

http://pogoda.by/pre...lease/?page=394

[Dave K]

Confirmed also the new national April record high temp for Lithuania too. 29.9 °C on the 29th at Varėna.

http://www.meteo.lt/...iena.php?id=468


So that's 5 national high temp records for April broken this week!

[Ed.]

A pretty balmy 31C in Bulgaria at the mo, feels more likea hot August day (if we're lucky...) than the beginning of May! three hours journey can make a fair bit of difference - tan topping nicely btw

The heat looks set to continue...

[Dave K]

I can't ascertain if the national record for April max temp in Moldova was broken, but here is news from the Moldovan Weather office translated

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On April 30, 2012 in Moldova almost everywhere has reported the highest maximum air temperature in this month throughout the period of instrumental observations - 30.6 .. 32.5 ° С, being 0.5 - 2.0 º С higher than the absolute maximum in April.

Plenty of records went in Hungary too, although whether these are location / daily records is not certain due to translation difficulties from Magyar.

[Dave K]

Just as a postscript to this thread, at 11.30 local time today in Poznan it was just 7 °C, a bit of a fall from the 25 - 30 °C of last week!

[Ed.]

Well that was fun.. and following on from my earlier post - from shade temps well into the 30C bracket, in the sun don't even ask? the heat suddenly dissipated as temps bounced back nearer to 7c/45F in what seemed like 2 hours & fourty minutes give or take a cabin crew announcement