Winter arrives on a Wednesday in January. Yordanovden and Ivanovden will be warm with daytime temperatures ranging from 8 to 12 degrees in the extreme southern regions of the country. On the morning of January 7, negative temperatures are expected in the western regions, but rapidly increasing. No rainfall is forecast. From Monday the weather will change: cloudy with rain that will turn into snow. Meteorologist Petar Yankov told Bulgaria ON AIR.
According to him, new snowfalls and cooling are expected in the period from January 13 to 15 after the slight warming of January 12.
NIMH’s Anastasia Stoycheva told BNR that we are already moving towards warmer seasons.
“There is a trend towards winter that is late but lasts longer and has snow for a longer period of time,” he said.
We welcomed the year with much hotter than normal temperatures for January. We had 20 degrees in late December and early January, but we’re far from the all-time record of 28 degrees, he stressed. The record low temperature was -38.3 in 1947.
Years where we have temperatures above climate norms have become more frequent, the meteorologist said, but added: “It’s no surprise that we reach very low temperatures at some point.”
According to her, the nature of winter is determined by January.
Anastasia Stoycheva predicts an increase in the likelihood of precipitation at the beginning of the second decade of the month: “With this gradual decrease in temperatures from now on – we will most likely go into more wintery synoptic processes.”
