Switzerland recorded its highest-ever January temperatures north of the Alps Sunday, thermometers hitting 20.2 levels Celsius (68.4 levels Fahrenheit) within the city of Delemont.
MeteoSwiss, Switzerland’s nationwide climate and local weather service, stated January warmth information fell at a number of monitoring stations on the north aspect of the Alps mountain vary, attributable to heat winds from the southwest.
“For the first time, 20 C in January on the north side of the Alps!” it tweeted.
The 20.2 C temperature recorded in Delemont was attributable to delicate southwesterly winds combining with the Foehn impact — a dry, heat, downslope wind on the downwind aspect of a mountain vary — coming off the Jura mountains, stated the company.
Temperatures in Delemont have been hovering greater than 16 levels above the 1991-2020 common for the flip of the 12 months, giving climate “worthy of June”, it added.
Delemont is the capital of the northwestern Jura area, which borders France.
In Vevey on Lake Geneva, folks queued for ice lotions, whereas in Geneva itself, swimmers took half within the conventional New Year’s Day dip within the lake.
They toasted the arrival of 2023 with fancy gown and champagne — and in unseasonally heat air nicely above the 8.5 C water temperature.
Switzerland’s earlier January temperature file for north of the Alps stood at 19.4 C, recorded on January 12, 1993 at Lucerne.
The highest January temperature ever recorded wherever in Switzerland was 24.0 C, registered on the south aspect of the Alps within the Ticino area, in 1944 at Lugano and in 2007 at Locarno-Monti.
In the tiny principality of Liechtenstein neighbouring Switzerland — additionally coated by MeteoSwiss — temperatures reached 20.0 C within the capital Vaduz on Sunday.
That set a brand new January warmth file on the station, beating the 19.0 C recorded on January 22, 1997.
