Don’t pack your bags for Spain just yet: meteorologists predict weather throughout the country will “warm up” in the coming days with practically tropical temperatures of plus one to two degrees forecasted for Thursday.
While this is some of the coldest weather the Czech Republic has had to endure in recent years, it isn’t the chilliest by far. Read on for extreme weather numbers from 2017 and past years:
Lowest recorded temperature in Prague this year: -16°C (January 11, 2017)
Lowest historic temperature on record in Prague: –27.6°C (recorded from Clementinum March 1, 1785)
Lowest recorded temperature in the Czech Republic this year: -34.6°C (Březník, Šumava)
Number of years weather has been recorded from Clementinum: 265 (Meteorlogical measurements were begun here in 1752; it is one of the oldest weather observation stations in Central Europe.)