The Institute of Meteorology and Water Management for a number of Polish regions has issued warnings against hydrological drought. A bad situation is aggravated by very high temperatures that attacked our country at the beginning of July.
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As IMGW warns, temperatures can reach up to 35 degrees Celsius, which is not only a threat to people (and animals) staying outside, But also very worried hydrologists. As indicated by the Gazeta.pl website, on the water gauge in Nowogród on the Narew, the water level of the record low and is only 3 cm.
“High temperature, lack of long -term rainfall or more broadly: a change in the nature of rainfall, warm winters” – this year, Grzegorz Walijewski, IMGW spokesman in an interview with Gazeta.pl, saw drought last year. In addition, he pointed out that I brought to myself, among others Over the years, inadequate melioration and “concrete”.
Dramatic level of the Vistula. The record is broken, and it can be worse
The dramatic situation can be seen in the hand in Warsaw. It was on the water gauge at the Vistula boulevards at nearly 23 cm deep (this level was recorded on July 2 at 11). Even worse, the situation is “developmental”, which means many indicate that the worst will happen.
According to Gazeta.pl, IMGW forecasts predict that the record on Friday on Friday on Friday. Synoptics expect the level to drop to 18 cm deep. The previous record – which was broken in 2024 – was 20 cm. IMGW experts do not rule out that on Saturday The level of the Vistula in Warsaw will drop up to 15 cm.
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As noted by Gazeta.pl, the state below the minimum periodic Wisła also reached at the Modlin measuring station. In the same measurement period (July 2 at 11), 207 cm was recorded. This means that the water level in Wisła is below the record of 16 January 1933, when the river was at 214 cm deep at the measuring station.
