Prague records one of the warmest winters in history

This year Prague saw one of its warmest winters in the past 250 years, the Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute reported on Wednesday.

Between the start of December and end of February, the oldest Czech meteorological station at Prague’s Klementinum recorded an average temperature of 5.1 degrees Celsius, which is 2.8 degrees higher than the long-term average.

This makes it the second warmest winter since measuring began at the station 1775, along with the winter of 2020. Above-average temperatures were mainly recorded in February, which was the warmest on record with an average of 8.1 degrees Celsius.

So far the warmest winter on record was in 2006, with an average temperature of 5.8 degrees Celsius. The coldest winter recorded was in 1829 with an average temperature of -6.1 degrees Celsius.