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In the rest of the country the air temperature is +1..+3 degrees, in the Southern Kurzeme region up to +6 degrees.
The sky is mostly cloudy, there is no precipitation. Fog in some places. A slow wind blows.
The snowpack has melted, in parts of the eastern part of the country only a thin layer of snow remains.
In Riga the weather is cloudy, in some places there is fog, there is almost no wind and the thermometers show +1..+3 degrees.
There will also be haze. A light to moderate wind will blow from the south, southeast.
The maximum air temperature ranges from 0..+3 degrees in the north-eastern regions to +4..+8 degrees in the rest of the country. In the evening the national heat record of January 2 – +8.2 degrees registered in Rucava in 2007 will probably be broken.
Long-lasting rain will start in Riga in the afternoon, a slow to moderate southeast wind will blow and the air temperature will rise to +5..+6 degrees in the evening.
The weather is determined by the anticyclone branch, but a cyclone is rapidly approaching from the west. Atmospheric pressure 1016-1019 hectopascals at sea level.
The maximum air temperature on Sunday in the observation network of the Latvian Center for the Environment, Geology and Meteorology rose from +5.2 degrees in Alūksne to +11.1 degrees in Daugavpils, and this is a new record of January heat in the country.
The highest air temperature in Europe on January 1 was +24 degrees in southwestern France and +25 degrees on the northern coast of Spain. The heat record for the first month of the year was broken not only in Latvia, but also in Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, the Czech Republic, Denmark and the Netherlands. The lowest air temperature overnight on Monday -33 degrees in the mountains of southern Norway.
