During the year, the weather will be rainy and windy, frost and snow will return after the holidays / Day

The new week will start with clouds, rain and strong, gusty winds. On Monday evening, the air will gradually cool down and freeze in the east.

On Tuesday, the last day of this year, the weather will be mostly cloudy, and only in some places a ray of sunshine will break through the clouds for a moment. In the first half of New Year’s Day, the weather will not be too wet yet, but already in the afternoon, a new and wide area of ​​precipitation will reach Latvia, which will bring both more intense rain and snow, in addition, the precipitation will be long-lasting, sometimes it will also snow.

The expected weather conditions during the holidays will make driving difficult – the roads will become slippery, and visibility will deteriorate significantly during precipitation and blizzards. Up to five centimeters (cm) of snow will begin to form in places in the east. A moderate south-west, west wind will blow, the gusts of which will still reach 15-19 meters per second (m/s).

On the night of January 1, the air temperature will be from +4 degrees in Kurzeme to -4 degrees in Vidzeme.

On Wednesday, New Year’s Day, the weather will not change significantly. It will continue to rain in many places, wet snow is also expected and in the east – snow, so the morning of the new year will start there with slightly whiter weather. The wind will pick up again. It will be gusty throughout the country, with gusts reaching 20-24 m/s on the coast, and 25 m/s during the day. The air will warm up to +2…+7 degrees.

Current forecasts show that colder air will flow into the territory of Latvia after the holidays – the frost will return and on some nights the thermometer could even drop below the -10 degree mark, and you will have to dress much warmer during the day as well.

Rain will be replaced by snow, so the ground will snow white in many places. At times, when the wind is blowing, it will snow, predicts LVĜMC.

Source: www.diena.lv