And in Serbia 2024 was the hottest year ever recorded in the country

In a series of incidents occurred in mid-2024. The Balkan country recorded the hottest year since the start of data recording, the country’s weather service announced yesterday (03.01.20205). The average annual temperature in Serbia was 13.3 points in 2024, i.e. 2.3 points more than the average of the 1991-2020 period and nearly 1 point more compared to the hottest year previously recorded, in 2023, reports a report published by the weather service. In the summer the heat that prevailed reached its highest levels. DIVERSION “Middle temperature and average maximum annual temperature rates were recorded throughout Serbia, as were average minimum temperatures in most of the country,” meteorologists note. In 2024, Serbs experienced a series of heat waves, including four in June, with maximum temperatures daily above 35 degrees Celsius, says the report. Meteorologists also recorded a record of summer days and tropical days with temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius, as well as tropical nights and a small number of cold days. As noted in the report, the 10 hottest years were recorded after 2000, when between the 20 hottest years, only two are in the 20th century: 1994 and 1951. Serbia did not know its usual snow levels in 2024, recording the weakest snowfalls in history in Negotine (east), with only 2 cm and the lowest number of snow cover days in many stations across the country.