Following unusually warm February, record March 1 temperatures seen

Record temperatures for March 1 were registered at 22 of 166 weather stations in Czechia in operation for at least 30 years. A high of 16.3 degrees Celsius was seen in Vidnava in the Jeseník Mountains in the east of the country on Friday.

This follows a February when, according to preliminary data, the average temperature, 5.7 degrees Celsius, was 2 degrees higher than the previous warmest second months of the year, in 1966 and 2020. This February was warmer than most months of March and in fact would have ranked as the fifth warmest March since records began in this part of the world.