36 temperature records set in Kyiv in 2019
“All 12 months were warmer than the climate norm. June, with an average temperature of 23.6°C, turned out to be the warmest in record-keeping. Also, the temperature in Kyiv in December never exceeded +15°C. But in 2019, it rose to +15.2 °C on December 18,” reads the report.
On the whole, temperature records were broken 36 times in 2019, the largest number was set in June – 11 times.
The coldest day was January 9, when the minimum air temperature fell to -14.4°C, and the hottest day was August 13, when the maximum air temperature in the shade rose to + 35.0 °C.
According to the Central Geophysical Observatory, the average annual temperature in Kyiv last year rose to +10.6 °C, which is 2.9 °C higher than the climatic norm and the highest since 1881.
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