Samstag, 19. Mai 2018
Meteorological report for April (Maribor)
Is April spring or summer month? This question arises us because of high temperature in the second half of the month. The difference between the highest (23th April) and the lowest (2nd April) measured temperature in the month was as high as 28.8 °C.
The average monthly temperature was also significantly higher than the average of the period from 1981 to 2010 – it was 15,14 °C, and it was 4,34 °C higher than the long-term average. The long-term average for April is 10.8 °C in Maribor. However, if we compare the average temperature of the second half of the month with the average of the period from 1981 to 2010, it was found that it was higher by as much as 13.77 °C.



In April, the daily average temperature was only four times below the average of the period from 1981 to 2010 (10.8 °C). The maximum temperature was twenty times above 20 °C, thereof eight days above 25 °C. The lowest temperature in April was 0 °C, and the highest temperature was 28.8 °C. In the first four months, the average temperature was 0.39 °C higher than the long-term average.
Precipitation during April was less than average. The measuring device detected 44 mm of precipitation, which is less than as long as the long-term average (60 mm of precipitation). In the first four months, was 64.4 mm more precipitation than the long-term average.



The average relative humidity in April was 62.22 %, which is 15.38 % less as in March. This was expected due to less precipitation.

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