Experts are warning. High temperatures will become a regular occurrence, and summer could extend from now on
Whether we like it or not, our summers will become increasingly warmer and longer.
After the heatwave in July, meteorologists warn that high temperatures will become a routine, and the violent phenomena that will interrupt periods of heatwaves will also become a part of daily life.
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Experts also believe that summer could extend until the end of September.
Meteorologists have already declared this year's July as one of the five hottest in the history of measurements, with a nationwide average of 22.1 degrees Celsius.
Roxana Bojariu, a climatologist at the Administration of Meteorology: "Global warming is evident in this indicator as well, the average temperature for July, as the average temperature for the 1991-2020 reference period is one degree higher than the 1961-1990 reference period, which is 30 years ago".
The heat was felt most strongly in southern Romania, along the Danube, in Oltenia and in Muntenia. Last month, we had days with maximum temperatures of 42 degrees Celsius in the shade in Zimnicea and Cernavodă.
For example, in Zimnicea, there were 13 days of heatwaves with temperatures over 35 degrees Celsius, and the monthly average of +26.7 degrees Celsius was the highest average measured in recent years there.
In July 2018, for instance, the average was only +23.3 degrees Celsius. And specialists say that this will be the new normal".
Roxana Bojariu, a climatologist at the Administration of Meteorology: "Records will continue be broken, with the majority of them tied to the accelerating pace of climate change, resulting in increasingly higher temperatures across all seasons, alongside extreme phenomena. Periods of high temperatures are interrupted by these periods of instability, and even the instabilities are much stronger than those we were accustomed to decades ago because, in the climate system, we have an increased amount of energy due to global warming".
Under these conditions, experts believe that we should get used to increasingly warmer and longer summers.
Roxana Bojariu, a climatologist at the Administration of Meteorology: "We, climatologists, see in the data series how September is acquiring more and more characteristics of a summer month, and in past years, there have even been heatwaves in September".
Until we reach September, the next two weeks are expected to be hot.
