Super winterstorm Filomena hasn´t brought only enormous amount of snowfall in the Spain, but to tropical temperatures into southern parts of Europe!
While on the back side of the system, was flowing at the weekend over the Spain and Portugal extremely cold Siberian air /https://mkweather.com/2021/01/09/madrid-50cm-of-snow-aemet-confirmed-the-worst-snowfall-since-1971//, on its front side has found a way over Italy, Greece, Balkan, Turkey, Caucasus and northern Africa, extremely hot tropical air, with temperatures, which have been never seen in Central Mediterranean in the middle of winter!
Extremes from Algeria to Caucasian Russia has documented a Twitter page Extreme Temperatures Around The World and few of other media:
in Italy was on Sunday, 10. January measured unprecedented +30,2°C in Barcellona, Sicily – the hottest temperature in Italy in January in record
Greece reported +28,4°C on Monday in Phalasarna on 10. January
Tunisia too with all-time January maximum temperature record on Saturday, 9. January 2021: Medenine +33,8°C
in Libya, Ghadames et Zuara +33,5°C on 9. January
Luqa, Malta, +25,8°C on 9. January, a new national January temperature record
Varna, Bulgaria during a workweek, +17,5°C, new all-time record for a station
Akhty, Dagestan, Russia (above 1000 MASL): +20,4°C at the weekend
Moreover, in Andalusia and Morocco, Filomena has brought extreme floods, e.g. in Casablanca /https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHlZ5KYUc1U/. In southern parts of Spain, locally more than 300 mm of rain fell druing 72 hours from in the second half of the last week.
After powerful heatwave, with tropical January temperatures, next doses of Siberian air are prepared for Mediterranean, including Sahara´s parts of Algeria or Tunisia during next 2 weeks.
Circulation of these days in Northern Hemisphere is totally broken, therefore, Mkweather expect many extremes until the end of a month, yet.
10 January 2020 was one of the hottest January days in European history. The PC station of Barcellona in #Sicily surpassed 29C while nearby private stations recorded as much as 30.2C (pic). Europe only recorded 30C+ in January in Palerme in 1962 and at Vrysses (Crete) in 2010. pic.twitter.com/1SSPc3Moj9
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) January 10, 2021
10 January also saw exceptionally high temperatures in Northern #Crete, #Greece, where, similarly to northern Sicily, the siroco wind is powered by foehn effect crossing the mountains. 28.3C was recorded at Phalasarna, not far from the January record of 30.4C at Vrysses in 2010. https://t.co/umNGWhVM0y
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) January 11, 2021
9 and 10 January also saw record high temperatures in #Libya . 9 January Tmaxes: Zuara 33.5C,Ghadames 33.5C,Khomes 31.5C,Misurata and Hun 30.5C. On 10 January: Tripoli 33.0C and Nalut (630m asl) 28.0C. pic.twitter.com/JkJjQpqbsT
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) January 10, 2021
While Western Europe is under intense freezing, more east #Turkey,#Georgia and the Russian Black Sea and #Caucasus areas are living insane mild conditions. The town of Akthy in #Dagestan,located at 1015m asl recorded 20.4C on 9 January. Jan 2021 so far is 8C above average ! pic.twitter.com/AK2WXN1cld
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) January 10, 2021
National monthly records of Tmax destroyed in #Tunisia and #Malta today 9 January. 33.8C at #Medenine pulverized the previous record of 31.3C set in 1979 while both Gudja and #Luqa stations recorded 25.8C trouncing the previous record of 22.8C recorded in the capital #Valletta. https://t.co/85KtFewKpV
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) January 9, 2021
