Summer Heat in Belgrade
Review of the National Center for Digitization, Tome 47 (2025), p. 42
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The main feature of the temperate continental climate in Belgrade is the occurrence of summer
heat in the warm part of the year. In meteorology and climatology, the summer months are considered to
be June, July, and August, which do not strictly coincide with the period of astronomical summer. Based
on climatological criteria, a summer day is considered to be one in which the highest air temperature is
equal to or higher than 25 degrees, and a tropical day is one in which the temperature is equal to or higher
than 30 degrees. Normally, summer days occur before and after climatological and astronomical summer.
Instrumental data on air temperature from the Belgrade Meteorological Observatory at Vračar for the
period 1887-2025 were used for the analysis. In order to extend the series and better observe the change
trend, corrected and reconstructed data for the period 1848-1887 from the Senjak measuring station in
Belgrade were used. An analysis of extreme values of daily, monthly, and annual air temperatures, the
average date of the appearance of the first and last temperature with values equal to or greater than 25, 30,
and 35 degrees was performed. Trends in these temperature parameters were also examined. The analysis
aimed to determine the most significant features of summer heat expressed through air temperature. The
results show that extreme values of summer temperatures are a common meteorological phenomenon for
the temperate continental climate in Belgrade, that they have a slight increasing trend that is not
significant, and that they have multi-decadal variability and periodicity that is mainly in accordance with
the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation (AMO). The analyzed data and results are presented in tabular and
graphical form.
Keywords:
extreme summer temperatures, mean dates, trends.
Nedeljko Todorović. Summer Heat in Belgrade. Review of the National Center for Digitization, Tome 47 (2025), p. 42 . http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/NCD_2025_47_a3/
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author = {Nedeljko Todorovi\'c},
title = {Summer {Heat} in {Belgrade}},
journal = {Review of the National Center for Digitization},
pages = {42 },
year = {2025},
volume = {47},
language = {en},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/NCD_2025_47_a3/}
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