New heat record in November: 23.5° recorded in Delémont
Keystone-SDA
At 23.5 degrees, a new record temperature for a month of November was set in the Swiss town of Delémont on Thursday.
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The last record was set in 2023, when the temperature was 22.8 degrees, according to Meteonews.
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The weather service expects the weather stations to record further high values throughout the day. In the early afternoon, temperatures were close to the 20 degree mark in many places, such as La Brévine with 18.3 degrees and Geneva with 18.5 degrees.
The new record for Delémont is significantly higher than the record set in 2023, writes Meteonews on its X platform. Measurement data has been collected there since 1959. Other possible candidates for the record are the foehn valleys. In Vaduz, in the Principality of Liechtenstein, for example, the current record is 23.7 degrees in November.
The weather services are also forecasting mild temperatures for tomorrow, Friday. These are “exceptionally high” for the time of year, writes Meteonews on its website. On Thursday, the zero degree isotherm was between 3,300 and 3,500 metres.
Until the start of next week, the weather will then be gloomier and colder. On Monday, a cold front will finally cross northern Switzerland. The snowfall limit is expected to fall below 1,500 metres, according to the same sources.
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