Hail and downpours may occur, the highest level of warning has been issued due to the heat

HungaroMet Zrt. issued the highest red level warning for five counties until Wednesday midnight and three counties until Thursday midnight due to the heat. They indicated: there may be thunderstorms in some places on Wednesday and Thursday.

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In the danger signal sent to MTI on Wednesday, the meteorological service informed that until midnight on Wednesday, the counties of Bács-Kiskun, Békés, Csongrád-Csanád, Hajdú-Bihar and Pest, and until midnight on Thursday, the heat was issued for the area of ​​the counties of Bács-Kiskun, Békés and Csongrád-Csanád due to a red level warning. In the affected counties, the average daily temperature may rise above 29 degrees Celsius.

In addition, Baranya, Fejér, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, Komárom-Esztergom, Somogy, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg and Tolna counties until midnight on Wednesday, and Baranya, Fejér, Hajdú-Bihar, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, Komárom-Esztergom until midnight on Thursday, , Somogy, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg and Tolna counties, a second-level warning was issued due to the expected high average temperature. There, the average daily temperature can be above 27 degrees Celsius.

According to the warning forecast of HungaroMet Zrt., the average daily temperature may drop below 27 degrees in a larger area in the Northern Central Mountains and in some places in the western part of Transdanubia, but elsewhere it typically exceeds this value. However, an average value of 29 degrees is still expected in the country, mostly in the southern and eastern parts of the Great Plain.

On Wednesday, mainly in the line of the Danube and to the east of it, thunderstorms may form in greater numbers, and in the late afternoon and early evening hours, there is a small chance that a cell may drift into the Alpokalja. These may be accompanied by stormy gusts of wind, hail and intense precipitation, and local downpours may also occur, primarily in the northern and northeastern regions.

Thunderstorms are expected to decrease at night, but they may still occur in the morning, especially in the Great Plains. During the day on Thursday, it may develop mostly in the central part of the country, and a few, expectedly not violent, thunderstorms may drift over the southeastern and eastern border regions.

UV-B radiation remains very high throughout the country.

Source: propeller.hu