First day of the year warmest on record

The first day of the year was the warmest New Year's Day on record, according to data released by the Hydro-Meteorological Institute. The temperature reached 15.7 degrees Celsius in Kopisty in the Most region breaking the previous record of 14.5 degrees from Valašské Meziříčí from 1936. The last day of 2021 was also very warm, with a high of 15.3 degrees Celsius, breaking records at half the monitoring stations in the country.