2024 could be the hottest year ever for Austria

Recent figures by Geosphere Austria show that a number of heat records have already been broken.

The average air temperature in Austria for 2024, including projections for August, is already above the average annual for 1961-1990, transmits albinfo.at.

Even a colder December than usual, which in 2023 was relatively soft at 0.5 degrees above the average of all time, is unlikely to significantly lower the annual average of 2024.

Particularly, the five warmest years registered are all from the nearest past, including 2023, 2018, 2014, 2022 and 2019, reports the International.

Records on tropical nights when temperatures do not drop below 20 degrees Fahrenheit [20 ° C] are already equalized or exceeded by mid-August in St. Pölten, Eisenstad and Graz.

In Eisenstad alone, the number of tropical nights this year has reached 23 August, four more than the previous record set in 2015.

St. Pölten has experienced 11 tropical nights so far, four more than in 2015. In Graz, the previous record of nine tropical nights from 2013 has already been achieved and is expected to be exceeded, with Geosphere Austria predicting constant heat in the country's east until Monday, followed by cooler conditions.

Vienna tops the list with the largest number of tropical nights this year, recording 37 at the Inner City weather station since 16 August. The record for tropical nights in Vienna is 41, established in both 2018 and 2019. Whether this record is equal or broken this year remains uncertain.

The most successive tropical nights were recorded at the interior city station in 1994, when the temperature remained over 20 degrees per 17 nights.