Freitag, 27. April 2018
Meteorological report for March (Maribor)
Winter continued into March. The first and the third week were especially cold. The difference between the highest (13th March) and the lowest (1st March) measured temperature in the month was as high as 36.1 °C.
The average monthly temperature was also significantly lower than the average of the period from 1981 to 2010, it was 3,35 °C, and it was 2,65 °C lower than the long-term average. The long-term average for March is 6 °C in Maribor. However, if we compare only the average temperature of the first week with the average of the period from 1981 to 2010, it was found that it was lower by as much as 8.78 °C.
In March, the average temperature was nine times below the freezing point (0 °C). The minimum daily temperature was seventeen days below the freezing point. The lowest temperature in March was - 19.8 °C, and the highest temperature was 16.3 °C.



Precipitation data show that March was rich in precipitation. The first part of the month was a lot of snow, while in the second part there was rainy.
According to the data of the meteorological station in the center of Maribor, there was 54.9 cm of snowfall in March.
Precipitation during March was above average. The measuring device detected 87.4 mm of precipitation, which is much more as long as the long-term average (57 mm of precipitation).



The average relative humidity in March was 77.6 %, which is 9 % less as in February.

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