After a hot Easter holiday starts next week, cooler weather / day is expected
The holidays will begin with hot and dry weather, and in many parts of the country the air temperature will exceed +25 degrees. On Friday, the air will heat up to +24, +28 degrees, on Saturday the temperature will be +21, +26 degrees, but cooler weather will remain in part of the coast.
From Easter, the weather will gradually become cooler and the clouds will bring more precipitation, with some heavy thunderstorms.
On the big Friday there will be summer and sunny weather. When slow wind blows, fog and fog will form in some areas at night and in the morning. During the night hours, the air will cool down to +8, +13 degrees, with places on the Gulf coast will be cooler, according to the Latvian Center for Environment, Geology and Meteorology.
On the other hand, as the sun shines in many parts of the country, the thermometer bar will rise significantly to +23, +28 degrees, only in Kurzeme on the Gulf coast will have a lower air temperature.
On the quiet Saturday, the clouds will bring the rain to places, even with heavy thunderstorms in the west. During the night and morning hours, the fog will thicken in some areas. The air temperature at the night will be +11, +16 degrees, and during the day the air will warm up to +22, +27 degrees, but the coast will still be cooler. In some places on the coast of Kurzeme, near water, the air temperature will be much lower than elsewhere in the country.
On Friday and Saturday, the warmest days of the week are expected and the national heat records will be beaten, and the maximum air temperature of April will be exceeded if the air warms up to 27.9 degrees. The heat record of April 18 was reached in 1959, when the air temperature rose to +23.2 degrees in Skriveri, but the national maximum air temperature record was +24.2 degrees on April 19, which was recorded in Liepaja in 2000.
Easter weather will be determined by cyclone action. At night and in the morning, rain is expected in many places in the first Easter, but it will be temporary, and heavy thunderstorms are expected locally. In the second Easter, rain is expected only in some areas.
These days, a colder air mass will gradually flow into Latvia, so at night the thermometer will drop to +5, +10 degrees, while the day will only rise to +9, +16 degrees.
Since Easter in some years can range from March 22 to April 25, the weather is possible for year after year – from summer heat to winter frost and snow.
Since 1991, the hottest Easter was in 2000, when the air temperature rose above +20 degrees at Easter, and on the second Easter, which was on April 24 that year, it reached +27.9 degrees in Riga. Meanwhile, the coldest Easter was in 2013, when the air temperature dropped to -14.5 degrees in Zoseni on the big Friday, which was on March 29.
The highest rainfall on the Easter holidays was observed in 2001, when in Carnikava from 13 to 16 April the rainfall was 42 mm. This year, on the Easter day, several centimeters of snow covered almost all over the country, with a thickness of up to 32 centimeters in Kalnciems. However, the thickest snow blanket – 59 centimeters – on the big Friday of 1996, which was on April 5 that year, was observed in Griškani.
The strongest wind gusts – 26 meters per second – were observed in Kolka in the quiet Saturday of 1991 (March 30).
In the coming days of the new week, the sky will mostly be cloudy, but only at the end of the week is raining at the end of the week.
The wind will turn from the north and the weather will become cooler, the air temperature will not exceed +17 degrees during the day, and during the dark hours of the day, the east of the country will fluctuate around zero.
On the other hand, according to the current Global Forecast System forecasting next week, the air temperature will not exceed +15 degrees, on coldest nights the thermometer can drop slightly below zero. Occasionally precipitation is expected.
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