Temperature record for March in Iasi. On Sunday at noon, 27.9 C were recorded in the city

The “stars” were the weather stations in cities such as Călăraşi, Giurgiu or Oraviţa. There were also places in Transylvania and Moldova where the temperatures were at the level of those that would be recorded in the second part of June. On Thursday, the weather started to heat up seriously, and the maximum in the country was +23 C in Bechet. The little summer was just beginning, notes hotnews.ro.

On Friday, the temperatures rose, they exceeded 20 C in all regions and were over 25 C in Moldova, Oltenia and Muntenia. The hottest was in Brăila and Calafat (+25.8 C), in Buzău it was 25.6 C, in Ploiesti 25.5 C, and in Focşani, +25.2 C, according to ANM maps.

Saturday was an exceptional day, with maximums in the country reaching +29.8 C in Giurgiu, +28.8 C in Zimnicea and +28.6 C in Călăraşi. There were absolute records for March in several places, such as Târgu Mureş (+27.1 C, surpassing a record from 1975). Even at Intorsura Buzăului they were 24.7 ºC, and at Miercurea Ciuc, one tenth of a degree less. In Lugoj, it was +28.5 C, and in Sebeş and Dumbrăveni, in Transylvania, it was 27.8 C. The warmest in Moldova was in Botoşani, 27.1 C.

The morning of Sunday, March 31, brought temperatures between -1.2 ºC in Miercurea Ciuc and +20.2 C in Oraviţa. The latter is an exceptional temperature, because a tropical night was recorded in the city of Banat at the end of March.

Tropical nights are those in which the minimum temperature does not fall below 20 C and they occur mostly from June to August, but not at high altitudes. A few times a century there are tropical nights at the end of April in Oraviţa and Drobeta Turnu Severin, but such a temperature appearing in March is very rare. Normally, the night minimum is somewhere around 6-7 C in Oraviţa. In Oraviţa, on Sunday, the maximum was +26.5 C, and towards the end of the day, around 23.00, it was still very hot: +23 C.

On Sunday at noon, temperatures were 11-15 C higher than normal for the period, the maximum in the country being 30 C, in Călăraşi, a city that holds many heat records for spring and autumn.

In Moldova there were +27.7 C in Roman, according to ANM data. In Iasi, it was +27.9 C, surpassing the record for March, which dates back to 1975.

There were June temperatures in many places where it is normally cool in March: +27.5 C in Rădăuţi, +27.4 C in Suceava, +27.6 C in Târgu Secuiesc, +24.6 C in Topliţa and +23.5 C in Joseni.

At the end of Sunday, at 11 p.m., the ANM data showed temperatures that would not have been exaggerated even in July: they were +23 C in several places in the west and there were 21 C in Sibiu and Blaj and 20 C in Brasov.