Extreme frosts are here: Czechia reports -27,3°C

Before a main predicted peak of winter around 17.-27. January 2022, severe frosts hit in Europe in a few days already around a week earlier.

Only on Saturday, 8. January, Gielas in Sweden reported -38,7°C and extremely cold Arctic air masses have already shifted above the continent, with really freezing temperatures in mountainous valleys.

Kvilda-Perla, Czechia (1065 MASL – the highest elevated village in Czechia), on 12. January 2022, reported the lowest temperature in the country in Winter 2021/2022 when only -27,3°C was measured /https://tn.nova.cz/zpravodajstvi/clanek/452431-cesko-zasahl-silny-mraz-na-sumave-namerili-26-5-c/.

From other stations, -26,0°C was measured in Rokytská Slať or -23,5°C in Jizerka.

Austrian densely populated regions reported up to -18,4°C in Tannheim /https://www.wetter.at/wetter/oesterreich-wetter/minus-18-grad-mega-kaelte-in-oesterreich/506922923/.

Frosts below -20°C in the next days are expected even in Hungary (during the peak of winter even lower expected temperatures), around -25°C should appear again in Poland or Slovakia /https://mkweather.com/the-lowest-temperature-of-the-winter-2021-2022-in-europe-in-poland-czarny-dunajec-249c-so-far-mid-latitudes-below-1000-masl// and similar temperatures hits Alpine region, Balkan, Eastern Europe or Baltic countries.

Temperatures up to -25,8°C are already reported from Baltic countries and almost -20,0°C was measured within a main Ukrainian site /the next Mkweather article/.

Severe frosts in Europe are predicted to stay approximately until the end of January 2022 /https://mkweather.com/6-week-forecast-for-europe-january-will-be-the-last-winter-month-february-will-bring-spring//, then they should be replaced by early-spring weather NAO+ pattern / https://mkweather.com/early-spring-in-february-2022-is-confirming-strong-nao-is-predicted/; https://mkweather.com/spring-2022-will-come-in-february-nao-and-extremely-warm-early-spring-conditions-in-february-and-march-2022-are-predicted-cfs-ecmwf/; https://mkweather.com/spring-2022-forecast-for-europe-early-dry-late-stormy-very-warm/.

Latest regional forecasts of upcoming peak of Winter 2021/2022 for regions in Europe you should find here: /https://mkweather.com/a-peak-of-winter-in-the-british-islands-between-17-25-january-2022-up-to-15c-possible/; https://mkweather.com/a-peak-of-winter-in-the-british-islands-between-17-25-january-2022-up-to-15c-possible/; https://mkweather.com/life-threatening-40c-frosts-for-scandinavia-between-15-25-january-2022/; https://mkweather.com/spain-portugal-and-nw-africa-with-a-possible-2-week-lasting-peak-of-winter-2021-2022-severe-frosts-and-snowfall/; https://mkweather.com/france-and-benelux-with-returning-frosts-and-snowfall-in-alpine-valleys-below-1000-masl-below-20c-possible-ardennes-around-12c/; https://mkweather.com/drastic-gfs-run-with-a-hard-siberian-blast-for-italy-and-balkan-30c-in-balkan-and-the-alps-valleys-20c-for-the-apennines/; https://mkweather.com/eastern-europe-temperature-should-stop-in-interval-25-30c-estonia-already-228c-and-latvia-204c/; https://mkweather.com/turkey-and-the-northern-middle-east-with-a-severe-siberian-blast-eastern-turkey-below-30c-lebanon-10c//.

Source: https://www.ifrog.cz/teploty.php?sort=tu#temp