HUNGARIAN WEATHER REPORT FOR DECEMBER 1950

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• Publication Date: June 20, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDEPTIAL wFIDENIIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Geographic - Weather report
HOW
PUBLISHED Monthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Budapest
DATE
PUBLISFED Feb 1951
LANGUAGE Hungarian
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The weather in December 1950 was very mild in most of the country, except
in the northwest, where low temperatures prevailed. Contrasted with October
and November, there was at least normal or more than normal precipitation every-
where. The normally driest areas of the country, the vicinities of Szekesfehervar
and Teo-4pre;,exceeded their normal quotas with reports of 115 and 120 percent
of average precipitation.
There was twice the normal precipitation in more than half the country:
most of the area east of the Tisza, the Bukk Mountains and north and northeast
of the Bukk Mountains, the area west of the Danube, and the Danube-Tisza inter-
fluve, including Somogy, Szentgotthard, Lenti, Nagykanizsa, Kunszentmiklos and
Nagykoros. In many places precipitation exceeded 300 percent [of the average 7:
Tiszabecs, 162 millimeters, 306 percent; Korosezakal, 152 millimeters, 346 percent;
Nagyleta, 140 millimeters, 311 percent; Mezokeresztes, 131 millimeters, 320 Per-
cent; Lillafured, 127 millimeters, 249 percent, Tokaj, 125 millimeters, 298 per-
cent; and Satoraljaujhely, 124 millimeters, 311 percent.
There were even greater deviations in temperature. '..'emperature west of
the Danube was normal and temperatures in the east and south were unusually
high. The temperature at Debrecen averaged 3.1 degrees above normal. Great
disparities in temperature across the country were usually caused by the entrance
in the west of several cold waves, conflicting with successive warm waves arriv-
ing from the south.
There was mild frost on the 1st and 2d, with daily high temperatures of
6 - 10 degrees. Precipitation was scattered and slight. A warm whve arriving
on the 3d raised the temperature in the et to Pecs. - 10 degrees, arrival west
12 - 13 degrees, and to a high of 14 degrees _
wave started general precipitation, totaling more than 10 millimeters in the
Bakony mountains on the 3d, and an average of 10 millimeters in all the southern,
eastern, and northeastern counttts,, with 28 millimeters at Korosszakal and 26
millimeters at Tiezabecs. Although there was no frost on the 4th, morning frost
reappeared on the 5th with the arrival of a cold air mass from the North Sea.
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-? a temperatuue at noon of t..e 5th was 3 - 5 degrees. Snow fell in the mountains
and in the 'douthwest, and tbere was rain in the east and in the Danube-Tisza
interfluve.
A mass of mild maritime air from the Mec4terranean moved up on top of the
cold air in the Carpatni , basin, giving rise o snow in the west and in
parts of the north and cast. On the m::rning of the 7th, Zirc was covered with
a 17-centimeter blanket of snow, while 16 centimeters accumulated at Komarom,
and 8 centimeters at Bu.udapest. The snow began to welt because of diurnal warm-
ing, and by the morning of the 8th-, there was no frost in the nlaces where no snow
_.-mained on the grourd. As the i:ighest temperata?, of the t m air mass was at
an altitude of one kilometer, thawing began on higher ground. The temperature
at Budapest on the morning of the 8th was 2 degre, , at Matrahaza (660 meters
above sea level) 4 degrees. and :n top of 1,000-meter Mount Galyateto 7 degrees.
Temperature measured at an altitude of one kilometer above Budapest was 10.3
degrees.
There were great %tisparitiee in diurnal warming on the 8th. The temperature
rose to 16 degrees at 5akescsaba ard. Debrecen; 15 degrees at Szeged: 11 degrees
at Nyiregyhaza, 12 de ees at Eger, and 11 degrees at Pecs. In places in the
west where there was still snow on the the "arm wave gave rise to fog,
which prevented further thawing and kept the ~;emperature at Sz,)mbathely and
Szentgotthard at 2 degrees, and at Mosvnmagyarovar and Gyor 3 degrees. On the
9th, the snow melted. The t-mperature in ties scuts ruse to 3 - 6 degrees and
in the east dron'ped to 13 - 12 degrtas, bus; he disparity in temperature across
the country was not neutralized grail the Jitn.
On the 10th, a coo? mass entered the southern counties and the east received
a cooler wave from the Mediterranean, causing more than 10 millimeters precipita-
tion east of the Sajo and K?~,os rivers. 0r the 11th causing whthe
ich
south, raising the temperature to - 7 d,gre=- g general
totaled 10 millimeters in scm' place3.
On the 12th, there was a great. differer..r.e in temperature between the
east and the west, a south wind raieing the temperature at Bekescsaba and Szolnok
to 12 degrees and at D=hrecer. to 13 des.:tas. A west wind caused the temperature
at Sopron to drop to 3 degrees, and at.rMosormagyaro7rar; Szombathely, and
Szentgotthard to 4 degr'e`s. Most. precipitation was east of the Tisza River,
with 36 millimeters recorded. at TiezaDC--cs, 21+ at Berettyoujfalu and Battonya,
23 at Nagyleta and Make, 22 at Bekescsaba and Korosszakal, and 21 at Vasarosnameny.
A cold mass covered the country one the 13th, and there was general frost
on the morning of the 14th, reaching affecting vegetation up to?7 a
height of 150 centimeters at the western border. But on the same day the tempera-
ture again rose above 5 degrees in the entire country, with the exception of
Szentgotthard, and exceeded 10 degrees at Szeged and Bekescsaba. On the morning
of the 15th, there was frost in only a few places in the west, and the temperature
in the east was 4 - 7 degrees.
The weather was mild and rainy on the 15th, with most rain falling in the
northeast: 24 millimeters at Josfafo, 21 at Miskolc, and 20 at Tiszabecs. On
the 16th, the difference in temperature between the east and the west was
heightened. The temperature recorded at Szombathely was 5 degrees, and at
Kaposvar 14 degrees? Cold air entering from the north and west brought much
precipitation, with snow and sleet falling in the northwest. The warm mass in
the south and east prevented the cold wave from spreading over the country, and
even west of the Danube temperatures did not drop below minus 1 or minus 3 degrees.
Lows in the east remained at k - 7 degrees. On the 17th, the 10-centimeter layer
of snow at Sopron remained intact, while the temperature at Bekescsaba and Debrecen
was a comparativly high 10 degrees. The temperature at Sopron on the 18th dropped
to minus 7 degrees, with minus 11 degrees recorded at the surface. Warm south and
southwest winds accompanied by blowing snow, together with meter-deep snow drifts,
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hindered traffic any places.
atsKomarom, 22
reported at Farkasg sgyepu, 17
Tatabanya.
On the 19th, there was widespread snow and sleet in the east, but no snow
cover remained. At the same time, more snow accumulated on the ground west of
the Danube, exceeding 30 centimeters at Farkasgyepu.
There was general freezing on the 20th, and some thawing during the day in
the east. The situation was the same on the 21st with no thaw in the west, but
all remaining snow melting in the east. The in the
heoeast wasmiinus8I
to minus 3 degrees. On the 22d, the temperature at Kapcsvar
degrees, at-'Szodbathely to minus. 10, and at Szentgotthard to'miaus 12.- Warm-naves
from the south eased the difference in temperature between the Pat andBthe,vest,
bringing the daily high at Pecs and Eger to 6 degrees, to 7 degrees
to 8 degrees at Szeged, and causing vary rapid melting. Temperatures rose to
2 - 5 degrees in the west and 6 - 9 degrees in the east,
Frost appeared in few places on themorning
h Szombathely. and snow
on the ground only at Koszeg, Kapuvar, and
25th at Salgotarian, Eger, Szolnok, and Bekescsaba was 10 degrees. There was
precipitation everywhere except n the northeastern counties. Precipitation was
heaviest at the western border, with i6 millimeters reported at Koszeg and 15
millimeters at Szentgotthard.
The temperature on the 27th remained mild, averaging 5 - 8 degrees. On the
28th, cold continental air from the Urals entered the northeast, creating a
difference in temperature between the east and the south. Morning frost reappeared
and some snow fell. in northeastern counties, Or. the 30th there was a mild thaw
in the south. Highest daily temperatures in.the north were minus 3 and minus 4
degrees. The 3lBt was overcast and somewhat cold. In the eastern counties, the
31st was the coldest of the month, with minus 6 degrees recorded at Nyiregyhaza 7 de and minus 8 degrees at Debrecen and at the soil surface, minsa7 degreeen.-t
Turkeve, minus 8 degrees at Nyiregyhaza, and minus 11 degrees
The following map shows the distribution of precipitation in December 1950:
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