Not only extremely cold air has in western Balkan, where historic frosts up to -33,4°C were measured /https://mkweather.com/a-historic-siberian-winter-in-balkan-montenegro-with-an-all-time-national-record-kosanica-334c/; https://mkweather.com/a-peak-of-winter-2021-2022-in-balkan-karajukica-bunari-serbia-311c/; https://mkweather.com/possible-absolute-temperature-records-in-parts-of-bosnia-and-herzegovina-sitnica-295c//, or extreme snowstorms and frosts in Greece, Turkey, and European Russia /https://mkweather.com/the-worst-blizzard-in-greece-since-1968-athens-50-cm-istanbul-turkey-36-cm-of-snow-florina-173c-and-a-rare-tornado-near-a-snow-covered-island/; https://mkweather.com/antalya-mugla-and-dalaman-turkey-with-the-first-snowfall-since-1993-a-country-with-the-strongest-power-outages-in-history/; https://mkweather.com/frozen-sea-near-sagiada-greece-after-181c-temperatures-in-lower-elevated-valleys/; https://mkweather.com/extreme-frosts-hit-kurdistan-397c-in-turkey-and-274c-in-iran-gaziantep-with-05-meters-of-snow-3000-vehicles-stuck-in-a-blizzard/; https://mkweather.com/tuapse-black-sea-region-russia-extreme-164-cm-snowfall-activities-outside-are-totally-impossible//, but surprising news from Romania, too.
Thermal waterfall in Toplita, Romania, frozen according to many sources for the first time in recent years.
The Toplița thermal waterfall is 10 meters high.
It usually has 27 degrees Celsius.
A report is coming after a very long and extremely cold period in the region.
In the last 18 days (between 12.-30. January 2022) in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania, 662 MASL, 14 days brought minimum temperatures between -11,6°C and -22,2°C.
13 days in the city were ice days, with all-day frosts.
In Bucharest, 3 days with minimum temperatures only -10/-11°C and 1 ice day were observed.
In Constanta on the coast, -6,5°C and 4 ice days were measured.
Sibiu, 444 MASL, reported on 25. January only -19,8°C and together 8 ice days during the mentioned period.
Sofia, Bulgaria, 586 MASL, reported on 25. January 2022 only -15,9°C and together 8 ice days during the period.
In Burgas, Bulgaria, on the coast, all last 18 days brought frosts and 2 days were even ice days.
In Ceadir-Lunga, Moldova, 180 MASL, -13,6°C was measured on 25. January 2022.
Cold weather should be returning in Romania in the next 2-3 weeks yet, then early-spring conditions from northwest should arrive /https://mkweather.com/ecmwf-forecast-for-europe-until-14-march-2022-early-spring-for-the-british-islands-scandinavia-continental-europe-and-iberia/; https://mkweather.com/early-spring-should-be-peaking-around-13-27-february-2022-nao-in-march-2022-will-be-even-warmer//.
Illustration picture. Source: Mother Nature Twitter
