Does a terrible winter await us in the next period? See what climatologist Đurđević said about it (VIDEO)

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We entered the winter. Climatologist Vladimir Đurđević said, as a guest on RTS’s morning show, that forecasts currently show that the chances of a winter being warm, mild and relatively dry are higher.

“We went through a period that was relatively dry during November, so the trend of dry weather will probably continue,” Djurdjevic said.

According to him, that does not mean that we will not have precipitation, but on average it will be less during winter than usual, so it is possible that occasionally we will have a greater amount of precipitation and a cold period with perhaps more snow.

“If we look at the whole winter, on average it shouldn’t be a terrible cold winter with lots of snow, people are often fooled by the occasional change in weather when something changes drastically relative to an average,” Đurđević noted.

When we say mild winter, we are talking about a period of three months and not individual episodes, which are not uncommon.

And when we say terrible winter, the climatologist points out that we mean the periods in which the daily maximum temperature does not exceed zero and we have freezing days.

It has happened that we have low temperatures for ten days in a row, which is also possible this winter: the seasonal forecast shows that the winter will be a little warmer than the long-term average, but we have to monitor the forecast for the medium and short term day a day. for possible cold days.

New year time

Last year at this time there was no snow either, in 2018 there was. Tomorrow it will be 12-15 degrees, but sleet for the weekend.

He said that after the warmer part, there will be cooling and chances of sleet over the weekend. The chances of maintaining the snow cover in the south are greater, but then comes the thaw.

“Before the New Year itself, we probably won’t have snow in the lowlands, while it can stay in the mountains,” says Đurđević.

The cooling will only be for the weekend, emphasizes the climatologist.

Is it true: when summer is not extremely warm, winter is mild?

Professor Đurđević says it is a belief, “we would not pay attention to that.”

Although all the seasons are getting warmer, last summer it was a bit mild, we did not have temperatures above 35 degrees. However, that is an exception, summers are getting warmer.

“And if we go back to the eighties, the summers were colder then,” says Djurdjevic.

These days, the air smells of winter. “Air quality is not something we can be proud of,” he said.

Many cities have too many days when there is an overflow, Đurđević notes, adding that this is a serious problem, also in Belgrade.

Yesterday and today, the air quality in Belgrade was relatively good because the basket was blowing, so the air was purified, Đurđević emphasized.