Up to 50 degrees: Heatwave rolls towards Europe in early August

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According to long-term forecasts, this could break the European heat record set in 1977.

When even experienced meteorologists start sweating, it probably doesn’t bode well for the weather. All it takes is a glance at the forecast maps – at least in the case of Clemens Grohs, a specialist at “Kachelmannwetter”.

“I have not seen such maps yet and one can only hope for southern, southeastern Europe that it does not come so,” he writes on Twitter. According to the global weather forecast model GFS from the United States, it will be really hot on August 8 in the Adriatic and the Balkans.

According to the model, it will be up to 50 degrees on the Italian Adriatic coast. If it really comes as calculated by the American model, Italy would break the European all-time heat record from 1977. On July 10, 48.0 degrees were measured in Athens.

Similar temperatures are coming to Greece and the Balkans, according to models. The heat wave is also expected to last for a long time. The only good thing about it is that the forecast is still a long way off. Long-term forecasts are often subject to errors, even with today’s technology.

Warm but rainy
On the other hand, the forecasts for the coming weekend are much more reliable. On Friday, a west-southwest current will bring increasingly muggy and unsettled weather. In the mountains and in the foothills of the Alps, spring clouds will increase, leading to showers and thunderstorms. In between, however, the sun often shines. In the morning, temperatures will range between 13 and 20 degrees, during the day between 26 and 33 degrees. It will be warmest in the southeast.

A disturbance zone will then spread on Saturday. Dense clouds and showers will dominate the first half of the day along the northern side of the Alps and in the north and northeast. In the afternoon, the focus will shift to the southern side of the Alps. There it will still be sunny, at least in the morning, but this will also cause the air masses to heat up. Attention: danger of thunderstorms.

Early temperatures will range from 15 to 22 degrees, daily highs from west to southeast 21 to 30 degrees.

On Sunday, another cold front will cover large parts of the country. Widespread rain from Vorarlberg and Tyrol to Upper Carinthia. Sometimes heavy downpours are expected.

In the course of the day, the rain showers and thunderstorms will spread further east. There, there will be a few sunny hours at the beginning of the day, before showers and thunderstorms take over here as well. Early temperatures will range from 13 to 20 degrees, daily highs between 18 degrees in Vorarlberg and up to 31 degrees in Burgenland, and it will still be humid in some areas.