Prague, Feb 2 (CTK) – This past January has been the 7th coldest since 1961, when overall temperature averages started to be recorded on the territory of the present-day Czech Republic, Petr Dvorak, spokesman for the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMU), told CTK on Thursday.
He said that according to the preliminary data, the average temperature in January 2017 was minus 5.6 degrees Celsius.
The previous coldest January was in 2006, when the average temperature dropped to minus 6 degrees Celsius, Dvorak said.
The coldest January in the 56 years of regular measurements was recorded in 1963, when the temperatures reached minus 8.8 degrees Celsius, Dvorak said.
In January 2017, the country was hit by very severe frosts, when temperatures did not rise above zero even during the day.
In the well-known frost hollows in the Sumava and Jizerske mountains, south and north Bohemia, respectively, temperatures dropped to almost minus 30 degrees Celsius in the morning.
Unlike several past years, towns and lower-level places also had frosts and snow in January.
