From extreme to another – the city that last month had severe drought shot down in October the rain record from 1944
Giurgiu (Photo FRAINAWED, DREAMSTIME.com)
In September it was drought in the south of Romania, and in Giurgiu it rained 50 times less than in a regular month. In the city of the Danube, things have been completely different in the first eight days of October, because it was far exceeded 81 years ago, ANM data shows.
In September, of all the weather stations in the country, the one from Giurgiu had the highest negative deviation in the amount of rainfall: 98%. This means that it rained 98% less than the multiannual average for the first autumn month. Also in Giurgiu was the highest temperature in the country last month: +37.3 C.
In October, things stayed quite differently in Giurgiu, and in the first eight days it rained more than five times more than the average for all October: 249 l/sqm, according to the data published by ANM. It was the weather station where it rained the most in Romania on the days when the effects of the Barbara cyclone were felt.
The rainy October month in the weather history of Giurgiu was in 1944, with a total of 178 l/sqm. In the first eight days of October 2025 it rained 40% more than that autumn month 81 years ago.
According to Giurgiu, it was most raining in Zimnicea, in October 2025, a total of 234 l/sqm, being exceeded a record from 1944, but by 60%. In Hârșova, in Dobrogea, the record from 1972 was exceeded, as was the case with two weather stations in Bucharest.
At 51 weather stations, the amount of 100 l/sqm was exceeded in the first eight days of October, double the country for the whole month.
The absolute monthly precipitation record for October in Romania, 318.1 l/sqm, is from 1992, at Stâna de Vale, which is the “pole” of the rains in Romania.
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