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This summer week was spoiled and intimidated by the weather. The heat was often replaced by a heavy storm, washing everything in a row: people, cars, streets. Strong gusts of wind formed in places and spread entire areas of trees.
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Climatologist D. Valiukas states that this climate is quite typical in Lithuania, but not in the first month of summer. According to him, we are seeing the effects of warmer weather.
“This tropical air mass would probably be more typical of later times,” he says.
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The climatologist also points out that the tropical climate is currently observed in Russia, beyond the polar circle, although the average temperature is even several tens of degrees lower.
“These are such anomalies, contrasts between individual regions, months, weeks, they are no longer very normal,” says the climatologist.
D. Valiukas also explained how ice falls from the sky and can be injured.
Reader photo Rokas / During hail, chunks of ice fell on Kaunas
According to the climatologist, first of all, in case of high heat, steam accumulates and high spherical clouds are formed, the peaks of which can reach a height of 15 km. At this altitude, the temperature can reach -60 degrees Celsius. At such a height, ice forms from the steam and when the time comes, when the updrafts, according to D.Valiukas, no longer maintain the novelties, they begin to fall.
According to him, more storms of this type are expected this summer.
Watch the complete conversation with climatologist D. Valiukas:
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