Weather in Switzerland
Experts see a scorching month of August
Meteonews has identified striking similarities between current weather conditions and those of the 2003 record summer with his burning August month.
Since 2003, Switzerland has taken measures by launching in particular heat wave plans in the event of hot weather.
Lucien fortunate
In Switzerland, August 2003 had proved to be the hottest since the establishment of surveys. Today, the beginnings of this summer period have many similarities with that of 2003, notes MeteoNews. Twenty-two years ago, the period in July also had a drop in temperatures.
Meteonews managed to identify striking similarities with the burning summer of 2003 by analyzing the current weather conditions. The meteorological center also notes that an extraordinarily hot August succeeded in June twenty-two years ago.
Comparison of maximum temperatures in Zurich between the years 2003 and 2025.
MeteoNews/DR
Like 2003, barometric pressures on Central Europe proved to be significantly superior to the usual averages last month. This phenomenon, combined with frequent anticyclonic configurations, has favored exceptional sunshine and high temperatures, according to Michael Eichmann, meteorology expert at Meteonews.
As this year, the period in July 2003 was also characterized by a decrease in temperatures. Thanks to these correspondence, Michael Eichmann sketched the first cautious hypotheses concerning the month of August to come. In 2003, August had been largely – with June – the hottest month since the beginning of the measures.
A murderous summer 2003
During the summer of 2003, an intense heat wave overwhelmed Europe particularly for twelve days in August. That year, if the month of June had already distinguished itself as the most ardent since 1864, the month of August dismissed all the records: in Switzerland, a historic summit of 41.5 degrees was notably recorded in Graubünden. This heat wave was not without consequences on the population. In the country, 975 people died, an excess mortality of 7%.
Michael Eichmann notes that this year, the first projections of Meteonews also provide an anticyclonic climate in August on the British islands, similar to 2003. It nevertheless warns that, in the field of weather forecasts, “small differences between models can lead to large differences between the model and reality”.
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