HUNGARIAN WEATHER REPORT FOR JANUARY 1951

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• Publication Date: June 19, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Geographical - Weather report
HOW
PUBLISHED Monthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Budapest
DATE
PUBLISHED Mar 1951
LANGUAGE Hungarian
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HUNfGA IAN WEATHER REPORT FOR JANUARY 1951
There were great deviations in precipitation during January. Precipitation
for the month in Bekes, Csongrad, S..olnok, Hajdu, Heves, and Borsod counties was
below 20 millimeters, and in the area between Puspokladany and Berettyoujfalu
below 10 millimeters. The least precipitation was recorded at Berettyoujfalu,
8 millimeters, or 27 percent of the ?oca3 average; at Szendrolad 10 millimeters,
42 percent, at Karcag 11 millimeters, 48 percent; at Oroshaza llim&dlimeters,
45 percent; at Miscolc 11 millimeters, 41 percent; at Turkeve 13 millimeters,
52 percent; at Gyongyos 13 millimeters, 45 percent; at Hidasnemeti 14 millimeters,
54 percent; at Debrecen 14 millimeters, 44 percent; and at Bekescsaba 15 milli-
meters, 49 percent. There was more than average precipitation in some places
in southwest Hungary, in the Danube-Tisza interfluve at Bacsalmas and Nagykoros,
and at Tiszafured, Satoraljaujhely, and Zahony. Precipitation at Zahony and
Kapuvar, and in as and Zala counties totaled 150 percent of the average, and
reached 70 millimeters at Lenti and Szentgotthard, which is 195 percent of the
average.
As was characteristic of the entire winter, precipitation during January
was evenly distributed. Daily precipitation of as much as 10 millimeters was
rare. There were 10 - 15 days of precipitation during the month (i.e., days on
which there was at least 0,1 millimeter precipitation). There were 19 days of
4recipitation at Baja.
Temperature during January was generally mild. The only deviation from
normal was that the temperature in Sopron vas 1.5 degrees [centigrade used
throughout 7 higher, at Kalocsa 3.5 degrees higher, at Debrecen and Turkeve
3.5 degrees higher, and at Bekescsaba 4.1 degrees higher than average. Only
on 2 days of the month did the medien temperature at Budapest drop below the
average: minus 0.7 degrees deviation. on:4the.22&,and:.ainus 1_4egree,oU1the525th.
The 23d was the coldest day of the month for the rest of the country, with low
temperatures averaging minus 2 to minus 5 degrees; minus 5.9 degrees was recorded
at-Bekescsaba, minus 6 degrees at Kecskemet, minus 7.4 degrees at Miskolc. At
the soil surface, minus 8.1 degrees was recorded at Gyor, minus 9.3 degrees at
Miscolc, and minus 12 degrees at Sr.lgotarjan.
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The let was the coldest day of the month at the western border, and below-
zero temperatures prevailed in the south and in parts of the north. Such tempera-
tures are usual for this time of the year, and are noteworthy only because of the
unusual mildness of the rest of the winter.
Air masses arriving on the 3d from the south and southwest brought unsettled
weather, rain, snow, and sleet, but precipitation did not exceed one millimeter.
On the first days of the month, the southern pDrtion of the country was covered
with a thin layer of snow which disappeared during the next few days, leaving
only patches of snow on the 6th. There were only occasional night frosts.
On the 7th, a warm mass from the Mediterranean arrived above Budapest and
descended on the 8th, causing the temperature to rise suddenly to 7 - 9 degrees
at Budapest and up o 11 degrees in the south and southwest. The temperature
then dropped with equal rapidity, causing general frost on the 9th with the
exception of the south, where ice was thawing, Following days of vacillating
temperature, a subtropical air mass arrived on the 12th, which was the warmest
day of the month, with highs of 115 degrees recorded at Budalnsty 11.8 degrees
at Kalaegerszeg and Kalocsa, 12.3 degrees at Szeged, 12.5 degrees at Kecskemet,
12.6 degrees at Keszthely, and 14.8 degrees at Pecs. On the 13th, the tempera-
ture reached 12:7 degrees at Debrecen and Turkeve, and 13.6 degrees at Bekescsaba.
There was surface frost in many places on the night of the 12th, however,
and the temperature dropped to minus 3 degrees at Baja, Kalocsa, and Nyiregyr,za.
The mildness was broken on the 13th by the entrance of cooler air from the south,
causing considerable rain west of the Danube: 21 millimeters rain was reported
th.,_.a T?ol c and ?.alaegerszeg, and
at Kald, T( at Gyeicenyes, iv at Szentgot?aa....., r..----,
15 millimeters at Nagykanizsa. On the 15th and 16th, there was some rain west
of the Danube and on the Great Plain, and snow in the mountains. The ground in
the higher regions was again covered with snow. General snowfall on the 18th
covered the ground to a depth of several centimeters everywhere except in the
western border area. On the morning of the 19th, the temperature everywhere
dropped below freezing, Because of diurnal warming, however, most of the snow
covering melted, except in the northeastern counties and the mountain regions.
Air masses from the southwest brough moderate frosts on the morning of
the 22d, with no thaw during the day. The cold weather of the 23d was broken
suddenly by the entrance of a mass of Mediterranean sea air at the vicinity of
the southern Alps, beginning a period of unsettled weather which lasted into
the middle of February. The front formed by the warm and cold masses was located
in the region of the Drava and Szava rivers most of the time, but passed over
the country several times, accompanied by rapid changes in temperature and
precipitation. Vas and Zala counties received considerable precipitation during
these few days.
Following low temperatures on the 25th and 28th, the last day of the month
was mild and surface frost formed in only a few places.
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The following map shaves the distribution of prer?ipitation in January 1951'
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