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It should be mainly sunny in Czechia on Wednesday, with an average high temperature of 22 degrees Celsius. Cloudy skies and lower temperatures are expected on the following days.

The average temperature in Czechia in April was 10 degrees Celsius, 1.5 degrees higher than the long-term average taken from measurements between 1991 and 2020, the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute said in their monthly assessment of weather patterns in the country. The first half of the month was particularly warm, with the temperature in some parts of the country exceeding 25 degrees Celsius as early as April 1. The first so-called "tropical day", where temperatures exceeded 30 degrees Celsius, was April 7, the earliest record of a tropical day in observational history, according to the institute. However, the second half of the month was exceptionally cold, with snow and frost damaging crops across the country.

The German state of Saxony has asked Czechia for increased cooperation on the Czech-German border when it comes to migration, Interior Minister Vít Rakušan told reporters after meeting with his Saxon counterpart Armin Schuster on Monday. Mr Schuster stated that the migration situation is under control, but that the reason for the border controls is security and the hybrid war that Russia is waging in addition to restricting migration. The two ministers also discussed cooperation between Saxony and Czechia during natural disasters such as forest fires.

Prague city councillors decided on Monday to add an explanatory sign to the bronze wall sculpture with the inscription "Moscow-Prague" located in the Czech capital's Anděl metro station. The sign will state that the former Czechoslovakia was occupied by the Soviet Union at the time the sculpture was made and that the friendship between the two countries was only a propaganda claim. The city, along with the Prague public transport company DPP and the Prague City Gallery, will also open an art competition for a new design for the relief.

The sculpture pays tribute to the Soviet engineers who helped with the construction of the Prague metro and who played a significant role in the design of the station, which was formerly called "Moskevská" when it opened in 1985. It got its current name, Anděl, not long after the fall of the communist regime, in February 1990, but the sculpture remained even though the station has been reconstructed several times since.