Samstag, 1. September 2018
Meteorological report for August (Maribor)
In August, we finally had a real summer. Temperatures raise every day at the beginning of the month. With short interruptions, this was repeated practically until the last week. It is therefore not unusual that August was the warmest month this year. The trend of increasing the average temperature and reducing the amount of precipitation was continued.
The difference between the highest (August 9) and the lowest (August 27) measured temperature in the month was as high as 23.1 °C. This is not a big surprise for August, as it is characteristic that in the second half of the month, night temperatures are significantly reduced.
The average monthly temperature was also significantly higher than the average of the period from 1981 to 2010 – it was 22.16 °C, and it was 1.96 °C higher than the long-term average. The long-term average for August is 20.2 °C in Maribor. The average temperature fluctuated slightly in the first three weeks, but did not change excessively. In the last week, the average temperature dropped by as much as 5 to 6 °C. The difference between the average temperature of the coldest (August 26) and the warmest (August 9) day was 13.7 °C. There were also great differences between night and day temperatures, up to 18 °C, which is more than in May, June and July.
In August, the daily average temperature was eight times below the average of the period from 1981 to 2010 (20.2 °C). The maximum temperature was only five days below 25 °C, ten days above 25 to 30 °C, and sixteen days above 30 °C. The lowest temperature in August was 10.8 °C, and the highest temperature was 33.9 °C. In the first eight months, the average temperature was 0.85 °C higher than the long-term average. In the last month, the average temperature increased by 0.16 ° C in relation to the long-term average.



Precipitation data show that there was less precipitation in August. In August, only 77 % of the precipitation dropped, as is the long-standing average. The measuring device detected 86.4 mm of precipitation, which is much less as long as the long-term average (112 mm of precipitation). In the first eight months, 29.4 mm more precipitation fell than the long-term average. In the first eight months we recorded as much as 115 precipitation days, almost half of all days (47.3 %).



The average relative humidity in August was 70.62 %, which is similar to the months of May, June and July. According to cold night, this was expected. Therefore, relative humidity, despite high daily temperatures, only once dropped below 60 %. As a result, molds and rust appeared in the orchard and vegetable fields (tomatoes, potatoes).

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