Arriving and departing flights are being temporarily halted at Liszt Ferenc International due to black ice and extreme icing, operator Budapest Airport said on Tuesday. Flights were halted at 10:25 for safety reasons, Budapest Airport added. In an update a little before noon, Budapest Airport said that the nose gear of Ethiopian Airlines cargo flight […]
A recent survey shows that half of the population in Hungary could afford to purchase less fruit this year than in the first half of 2019. There are several reasons: tis year was unfavorable for Hungarian fruit production in all respects, while the crisis situation caused by the coronavirus epidemic put the Hungarians in a […]
A woman has died in a sudden flood caused by a thunderstorm in Tótvázsony, north of Lake Balaton in Western Hungary on Sunday afternoon. A spokeswoman for the Veszprém County Police Headquarters told the Hungarian news agency MTI that the 66-year-old woman and her husband wanted to clean the bridge pillar at the end of […]
Disaster management authorities were alerted 3,700 times over the week-end and Monday morning. A spokesman for the National Directorate General for Disaster Management says people were also injured as trees fell on two cars.
The Hungarian Meteorological Service (OMSZ) has warned that daytime highs could be around (or above) 40 degrees Celsius for the rest of the week, especially on Friday. Accordingly, a heat alert has been declared for the entire country until August 4.
Temperature reached 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees on the Fahrenheit scale) in Budapest this Monday afternoon, followed by a severe storm late at night. Southeast Hungary experienced even higher temperature: 38 degrees Celsius (101 degrees F).
A second-degree heat alert has been issued for Hungary by Deputy State Secretary Tamás Szentes, who also acts as Chief Medical Officer.The waring is effective to midnight next Monday based on a forecast by the National Meteorological Service.
Minus 28.1 degrees Celsius (that is, minus 18.58 degrees Fahrenheit) was measured at dawn in the village of Tésa - a new cold record. The previous one, minus 26.5 degrees Celsius was measured 32 years ago in nearby Romhány.
Mild winter has ended in Hungary and temperatures have dropped by 8-10 degrees Celcius due to an anticyclone arriving to the Carpathian Basin from Scandinavia. As a result, the minimum temperature will be under freezing point for the new few weeks.
This past week-end saw the first snow of the season on higher-lying areas of Hungary as temperatures dropping following an unseasonable mild weather lasting for the past few weeks. However, the 5-10-centimeter snow is not suitable for skiing.
One person died and 29 others were injured in the storms that hit Hungary on Wednesday, a spokesman for the disaster management authority was quoted by dailynewshungary as saying. The most harm was caused in Budapest hit by the storm in the afternoon.
A summer storm with torrential rain hit the Hungarian capital this Tuesday, flooding cellars, underpasses and low-lying streets. Firefighters were called to help in 230 different places nationwide (including 160 occasions in Budapest).
Extreme weather causes difficulties in traffic and power supply in and around the Hungarian capital. Black ice and trees fallen on roads prevent traffic in the Buda Hills and the surrounding areas. The village of Nagykovácsi has been cut off.
This Tuesday saw the first snow fall of the winter season in Hungary. Not surprisingly, it fell on the country's highest point, Kékestetõ, which is just over a thousand meters high, and the surrounding Mátra mountain in northwestern Hungary.
Severe storms were reported from all over Hungary on Tuesday, causing damages to several buildings and flooding the streets of some countryside towns. They ended a heatwave of several days with temperatures well over 30 degrees Celsius.
