Weather Report for 1. May 2025: Continental Europe after tropical heatwave frosts and snow in basins, Finland -10,2°C, the Netherlands +29,5°C, Germany +28,8°C, severe storms hit eastern half of the US and the next hard weeks ahead, Asia with +10°C above monthly records and 300-y heatwave (Pakistan +49,0°C, Kuwait +48,9°C, Saudi Arabia +47,6°C, Iran/Iraq +47,0°Cm UAE +46,6°C, Israel +44,9°C, Turkmenistan +43,3°C), Sahara hot, +40°C in South Africa and +30°C in southern Australia a month before winter, tropical depressions near Philippines
Marek Kučera 
EUROPE
April 2025 started in Europe with a severe coldwave, with snowfall even along the coast of Bulgaria, and in basins in Greece and Turkey.
Snow appeared above Sierra, Spain, Pyrenees and anomalous snowfall reported parts of the Alps, snowing hit lower elevated parts of Central Europe and Balkan.
Snowfall was significant in Ukraine and Moscow reported stronger blizzard like in January 2025.
Then, warming came from SW/W, with gradual summer days. On 17.4., Hungary reported tropical days above +30,0°C and exceptional heat hit Leba, Poland with 29,6°C. National record fell in Albania (April´s Tmin +20,0) the same day /https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1912902789216567543/photo/1, https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1912905324606136747/photo/1/.
On 18.4. already reported extremely hot weather Baltic countries, and then Eastern Europe and european Russia. In Lithuania was measured almost +30,0°C, Latvia reported +28,4°C and Estonia +27,8°C. Opochka in Russia reported 19.4. +28,0°C, Puskinskie Gori +27,7°C, Velikie Luki +27,6°C or Pskov +27,2°C. /https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1913663674956575102/photo/1. https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1913616450029539519/photo/1, https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1913263737169166352/photo/1/.
Sankt Petersburg reached +27,6°C on 19.4., what had been by far its hottest April day in 150+ years of climatic history. Incredible warm night at Kazan with a Tmin of 17,2°C, by far its hottest April night in history (data since 1880) /https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1913934424065900694/photo/1, https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1913934424065900694/photo/1, https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1913668880041726124/photo/1/.
Sumy in Ukraine reached hot +29,8°C on 23.4. /https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1915114028969730296/photo/1/. Belarus reported above +29°C, too /https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1914747973063598243/photo/1/.
At the end of April and the start of May 2025 hit Europe the next early heatwave, with +32°C in France /https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1917665612308046102/photo/1/, with anomalous temperatures mainly in the northern half. In Westdorpe, the Netherlands, +29,5°C on 1.5. was measured, Manheim in Germany reported +28,8°C /https://ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynext?state=Eur&rank=500&ano=2025&mes=05&day=01&hora=22&Enviar=Ver/. Nielle, France with +27,6°C and Brize, Norton, the UK reported the hottest May day since 1953! A new provisional record-high April temperature of +25,9°C for Ireland, observed at the Athenry /https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/1917682360474062967/photo/1, https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/1917620355126157417/photo/1/.
Extreme heat with temperatures up to or close to +30°C in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Czechia, Poland, Slovakia and above +30°C in Hungary, Italy, and Balkan are expected in the next days, in the first May 2025 pentad, however, a strong coldwave is in outlook.
Gradually, the Arctic air will flood Europe on the north side of the Mediterranean lows, with a possible late snowfall in the Alpine and Carpathian region below 1000 MASL, severe frosts up to -15°C hit regionally lowlands in Scandinavia, in continental European valleys should be around -5°C (!), with a possibility of danger for bloomed trees.
Parts of Europe, especially Spain, France, Italy, Balkan an partly continental and Eastern Europe should hit the next waves of severe storms with heavy rain, hail or gusty winds and lightening, with a possibility of regional flash floods.
Overall, strong Central European monsoon from April to July 2025 is expected, mainly in western and southern parts of the continent – look our Summer 2025 forecast for Europe /https://mkweather.com/summer-2025-forecast-for-europe//. Then, hot and dry summer is forecast to come from the hot and dry Eurasian continent.
Interesting in the last days were too power outages above Spain and Portugal caused by atmospheric phenomena /https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/power-mostly-restored-as-spain-and-portugal-grapple-with-fallout-of-massive-outage/1769750/, tornado near Antalya, Turkey (currently with severe storms regionally – Dalaman, 1.5. 51 mm) on 29.4. according to ESWD, on rare snowfall in Portugalese mountains in the middle of April 2025.
Iceland’s potato harvest hit by cold and wet throughout April 2025, what should be linked after the coldest summer in 30 years with Global Warming Hole anomaly.
Instead of current heatwaves, the Arctic sea ice is relatively above the expected curve, with a forming of colder Arctic air masses in the next period.
Tropical days in Central Europe https://www.wetterzentrale.de/en/topkarten.php?map=3&model=gfs&var=17&run=12&time=54&lid=OP&h=0&mv=0&tr=6#mapref
https://ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynext?state=Eur&rank=500&ano=2025&mes=05&day=01&hora=22&Enviar=Ver
Snow on 8.5. 2025 https://www.wetterzentrale.de/en/topkarten.php?map=3&model=gfs&var=17&run=12&time=174&lid=OP&h=0&mv=0&tr=6#mapref
ESWD reports from 20.4. to 1.5. 2025. Source: https://eswd.eu/cgi-bin/eswd.cgi
| tornadoto map | Belek Antalya Province Turkey (36.82 N, 31.05 E) < 3 km 29-04-2025 (Tuesday) 18:15 UTC (+/- 15 min.) | based on information from: photo or video of the event, a newspaper report occurring over: water Tornado over water (waterspout) https://www.lidergazete.com/amp/antalya-gunlugu/serik-te-denizde-hortum-olustu/207231 Reference: “Serik’te denizde hortum oluştu”, LIDER ANTALYA, 29 APR 2025 report status: report confirmed by reliable source (QC1)contact: Thilo Kühne (ESWD management/ESSL Team) |
Tornado near Antalya, 29.4. 2025. Source: https://www.lidergazete.com/amp/antalya-gunlugu/serik-te-denizde-hortum-olustu/207231
Source: https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_iqr_timeseries.png
NORTH AMERICA
In eastern half of the USA and the closest Canada, severe storm activity is furthermore expected (like in April 2025 and like is forecast in Summer 2025: https://mkweather.com/summer-2025-forecast-for-north-america-and-the-usa-at-the-first-half-more-floods-at-the-second-half-peak-of-the-summer-strong-wildfire-season-on-the-west-deadly-tornado-and-hurricane-season-on-the-eas/). Heavy rains, severe lighting, gusty winds and derechos, hail, deadly tornadoes and local floods – that all is a part of Tornado season 2025 /https://weather.com/forecast/national/video/omega-block-forecast-early-may?cm_ven=hp-slot-2/. https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2025-04-30-east-atlantic-tropics-cooling?cm_ven=hp-slot-3, https://weather.com/news/weather/news/2025-04-30-severe-storms-damage-pennsylvania?cm_ven=hp-slot-5, https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/severe-storms-to-target-some-areas-damaged-recently-by-high-winds/1770774#google_vignette, https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-forecasts/days-of-rain-to-soak-parts-of-northeast/1770592, https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-forecasts/texas-oklahoma-among-states-at-risk-for-flooding-into-next-week/1770232, https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/deadly-storms-hit-northeast-midwest-with-wind-floods/1770153, https://www.accuweather.com/en/videos/derecho-brings-power-lines-down-on-cars-in-pennsylvania/430d84df-c8dc-4066-b61f-005656f86672/.
Meanwhile, on the West, hot and dry weather continues, with only shorter arrival of weaker monsoon rains /https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-forecasts/weekend-storm-could-be-socals-last-rain-for-months/1770011/.
Before and arrival of powerful storm systems with derecho and tornadoes, shorter, but significant warmth has come. At Maison St Louis was at the end of April 2025, +25,9°C measured, which is the 3rd warmest April day in history. On 29.4., Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Ohio or Michigan had their highest minimums temperatures recorded in April with mid/high 60s and low/mid 70s. From Washington DC to Detroit with also tropical nights, moreover in Canada, were measured! (Tmins >20°C/68°F). https://twitter.com/Jersey_Met/status/1917607411675979885/photo/1, https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1917285255503045056/photo/1, https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1915217865533514123/photo/1/.
Hot air had come from Mexico and Texas region, where in the last weeks persisted anomalously hot air masses. Only on 28.4. Guadalajara, Torreon, Durango, Zamora or Aguascalientes were few decimals from their April records, set in 2024. The 3rd consecutive 108°F+ in Texas were 26.4.-28.4. observed. At the same day, Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma had locally their warmest April nights on record. Rio Grande in Texas reported +42,8°C / 109°F on 28.4.. Extremely hot was from New Mexico to Florida.
In the middle of April 2025, extreme +45,5°C/114°F at Plutarco in NW Mexico, with 5 days in a row >= 45°C, was measured. 25.4. was in Mexico again above +45°C, with above +30°C at >2500m, but with cooldown in La Rosilla, Durango highlands 25.4., with -14,0°C. /https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1917032705486884945/photo/1, https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1917005918853615780/photo/1, https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1916659544131854533/photo/1, https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1916315126074118203/photo/1, https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1913293507760144880/photo/1, https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1911960240289124520/photo/1, https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1915957066537308636/photo/1/.
From other wetaher news from North America we will mention +43,7°C in San Miguel, El Salvador on 20.4. – the highest temperature in the country since 1998 /https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1913975175948951682/photo/1/, historic +16,9°C in Nuuk, Greenland on 9.4. (the warmest day so early in the season in minimally 200 years) /https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1910015844794724715/photo/1/, winter storms in Montana, Colorado, Arizona in the middle od April, like snowfall in New England and Saskatchewan before 24.4., like frosts in Toronto before 9.4., snow in Mexico, Texas and California around 4.-11.4. and New Jersey wildfires in April 2025.
ASIA
Historic heatwaves – a total insanity – an event rewritting a world climate history – hit in April 2025 parts of Asia. According to weather watchers around the world, this was the most extreme event the world has ever seen without any competition. In 3 centuries of climatic history, nothing can be compared to what it’s happening in Asia now (!!!).
Already from 1. to 18. April, former ZSSR republics every day reported tropical +30/+38°C wit July-like temperatures. Later, at the end of April 2025, unbelievable +43,3°C was in Turkmenistan, +40,0°C in Uzbekistan, +39,0°C in Kazakhstan, +37,0°C in Tajikistan, and +36,1°C in Kyrgyzstan, measured. These values are regionally 10°C above all-time monthly April records (!!!).
For the first time in history (data since 1880), Kyrgyzstan has a tropical night in April – minimum temperature of +20,3°C was observed in the capital Bishkek. In Uzbekistan, madly +28,9°C at the night (Tmin) was measured in Tamdy, even over May records. On 29.4., incredible minimums in Northern Kazakh highlands never happened in April or even in May before! Tmin +23,4°C Shokpar, 770m is a new Kazakh national record. +25,8°C was in Burdalyk on 29.4. measured.
Northern China reached +42°C and Mongolia and Siberia up to +32°C.
April all-time records before were broken e.g. in Pakistan (+49,0°C – 145 years of climatology), Kuwait (+48,9°C), Saudi Arabia (+47,6°C), Iran / Iraq (+47,0°C /Basra in Iraq +46,1°C/), UAE (+46,6°C), or Israel (+44,9°C). In Abu Dhabi, UAE, +44,5°C, was measured, as well as in Oman, Dubai reported +44,6°C.
Makkah in Saudi Arabia reported the 2nd hottest night in history with Tmin +31,0°C. The hottest night in history reported Iraq, with +31,7°C in Haditah, too, on 24.4..
In China, despite being the first day of the month, 6 stations had their hottest May in history – in Xinjiang province, +42,0°C was measured.
In the middle of April 2025, +46,0°C was measured in Jaisalmer, India – only 0,1°C below its all-time April records, at the end of the month, with +46,2°C, the record was broken. Nawabshah in Pakistan, +48,5°C reported on 27.4.. Tempratured +45/+46°C were observed in India around 25.4. in central states. April highest minimum in history at Karwar with Tmin +29,7°C, was on 24.4. measured. New April records in Balgladesh appeared with the hottest night +28,5°C in Rajshahi, with maximum temperatures of +46°C at Jharsuguda and Chandrapur on 22.4..
Diego Garcia US Base of the British Indian Ocean Territory, Chagos Islands (in process to return to Mauritius) had its hottest April day in history with +36,1°C on 11.4..
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There have been continuous heat waves in southern China recently. The highest temperature was +39,3°C in Changjiang, Hainan, 22.4. Record of April hottest nights appeared in the Koreas 22.4. including +17,6°C in Hongseong, and 16.2 Munsan. Maximum temperature in South Korea reached +30,7°C on 18.4.. Exceptional +29,5°C at Hiwasa in Honshu smashed its April record by nearly 2°C on 21.4., Shimotsuma in Honshu reported +29,7°C on 19.4.. 18.4. in Yuanyang, China, +39,9°C was measured. Shijiazhuang, which saw 35°C for the first time in April in the middle of the month. Tangyin in northern China reported +35,7°C on 16.4..
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Orkhon and Orkhuntaal in Mongolia reported on 14.4. the first +30°C in Mongolian history, with Tmax up to +32°C above 1000 MASL. +31,7°C was in Chemal, Siberia, measured. /https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1911743388367609944/photo/1, https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1911064326334718044/photo/1, https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1911088991623160157/photo/1/.
Currently, tropical depresions 90W and 99W Invest are observed near Philippines. SE Asia was however in the last period bothered by severe heatwaves, too. The April highest minimum in history at Manokwari, West Papua, fell, with a minimum of +27,2C at the end of the month. In Thailand, +42,7°C in Tak, with heat index above +55°C, was measured and violent storms in Bangkok region are coming. Minimum temperatures above +30°C appeared in Philippines, Thailand or Myanmar. On the Gulf of Thailand at Laem Chabang, new record of highest temperature in April, was measured, +39,5°C. In West Papua with +35,8C at Tenah Merah, the hottest April day in history tied on 24.4.. +37,0°C in Puerto Princess, Philippines, was the hottest day in history in more than 140 years. Brunei ended with an extreme +37,8°C, half a degrees from the all time national heat record.
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On the other hand, before heatwaves, severe coldwaves appeared in the parts of Asia. The Korean capital Seoul had a historic mid April snowfall for the 1st time since 1907 on 14.4.. /https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1911763305443762251/photo/1/. Taiwan, northern China and Russia reported cold spells, too. In the first half of April, snowfall reported mountainous Iran and India, too.
Severe sandstorms moved across northern China, breaking wind records at 499 stations and prompting rare public advisories and severe dust storms hit Delhi, leaving 2 dead and 5 injured, India, around 12.-13.4..
Severe thunderstorms leave 80 dead a ross Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, India on 11.4..
Bezymianny volcano erupts in April 2025.
Invest 99W and Invest 90W Philippines
Tropical depression 99W Invest. Source: https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/storminfo/99W_geps_latest.png
Tropical depression 90W Invest. Source: https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/storminfo/#90W
SOUTH AMERICA
Guyana is facing to repeating heat – April hottest night in history in the Timehri with a minimum of +25,2°C, Tmin of +25,7°C appeared near Brazilian borders before 10 days, too. /https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1913404703670673893/photo/1/.
While Argentina and Paraguay have been cooler than average long time in April, heat continues unabated in Bolivia and Chile. On 18.4. +30°C was measured in central Chile and on 19.4. up to +35°C in the Atacama desert. /https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1913162669009539378/photo/1/.
Colombia (> +40°C in the Cesar department) and Ecuador (+36,2°C at El Coca) reported on 17.4. /https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1912682242578731318/photo/1/.
40,0°C at Sao Joao do Piaui, new record heat for April, was measured in Brazil, 10.4. 2025..
AFRICA
Severe heatwaves appeared in North and South Africa in the last period, both.
In southern half of Africa, +33,8°C was measured in Juan de Nova Island in French Southern Territories – the hottest day in history.
Late Autumn in South Africa with temperatures up to +40°C is 10°C above mid summer averages with +38,5 in Lamberts Bay, +37,7°C in Riversdale or +37,4°C in Clanwilliam. In Molteno, Tmin didn´t decrease under +23,3°C. +40,7°C on 26.4. at Alexander Baai was measured. A few days before, +35,3°C in Clanwilliam (inland from Cape Town) was observed.
April hottest night at St Denis, Reunion, was measured on 17.4., with Tmin of +26,4°C.
+38,1°C in Mahajunga, Madagascar, broke its record of hottest April day in history, on 15.4..
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+45,0°C at Gaya, Niger, on 26.4., means the hottest day in climatic history (for any month) ever at the station. 22.4., +45,5°C in Niger was measured.
+46,0°C at Asswan, up to +45°C in Sudan, +45,7°C in Chad +44°C in Burkina Faso (Tmins above +32°C), +43°C in Ghana and Benin, were on 25.4. measured. 45.7 in Chad,45.5 in Niger 43.0 Madinah SAUDI ARABIA April record tie 25.4. In Egypt, the historic +44,0°C in Aburdees and Ras Sedr on 24.4. was measured – its hottest day in history for any month. Cairo in Egypt reported hottest April night with +30,3°C, Ras Sedr above +30°C around 22.-23.4.. It has never happened in 145 years of Egyptian climatic history.
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1915840579654848913/photo/1, https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1915020330114179102/photo/1, https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1914747973063598243/photo/1, https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1914758017142366544/photo/1, https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1914747973063598243/photo/1
Franceville, Gabon, reported +36,1°C – the hottest day in history on 13.4.. Around 7.4., at least 33 killed in one of Kinshasa’s worst floods in recent history, DR Congo.
On 30.4., severe dust storm hit Egypt /https://www.accuweather.com/en/videos/dust-storm-reduces-visibility-in-egypt/a3ec2d77-8db1-4d12-8554-71a1d9556633/.
AUSTRALIA
Record warm spells hit in the last period parts of Australia with >+30°C even in South Australia. Remark in South Australia reported Tmin of +21,4°C on 19.4., Melbourne region reported tropical night and +30/+31°C Tmax. Tmin +25,5°C in was on 18.4. an April record of highest minimum. That’s absolutely mind blowing. 18.4. Cape Willoughby had on 16.4. a minimum temperature of +22,6°C, the hottest night in April on record. Minimum of +23,2°C at Eucla appeared on 14.4. which is a new record of April hottest night and above mid summer average. +41,0°C was measured in Red Rocks Point (13C+ above the mid summer max average !) /https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1916381841315008955/photo/1. https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1913140450195612139/photo/1, https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1912323292196925739/photo/1/.
Vanuatu reported extreme heat at the end of April and around 10.4.. Saratmata had its highest minimum in April in history with +26,6°C. +33,5°C Tmax in Saratmata broke April record of highest temperature in history /https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1914148319309295883/photo/1, https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1910241342216712412/photo/1/.
New Zealand hit around 11.4 early winter blast and around 15.4. Tropical Cyclone Tam, especially Northern Island.
ANTARCTICA
Antarctica was around 10.4. very cold, with early winter conditions. Record breaking cold blasts bothering region at the end of March 2025.
Outlook for the next month from AER:
Source: https://published.aer.com/aoblog/aoblog.html
Source: https://published.aer.com/aoblog/aoblog.html
Marek Sadowski 
