Unusually early Switzerland has already cracked the 20-degree mark today
For the first time this year, the 20-degree mark has been exceeded in Switzerland. In Cevio in Ticino, the thermometer climbed above this threshold at midday on Tuesday - significantly earlier than the long-term average.
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- In Cevio in Ticino, temperatures topped 20 degrees for the first time this year on Tuesday.
- According to MeteoSwiss, this happened around three weeks earlier than the average for the years 1991 to 2020.
- The timing of the first 20-degree measurement has historically fluctuated greatly.
The 20-degree mark was broken in Switzerland for the first time this year: At the measuring station in Cevio in Ticino, temperatures climbed above 20 degrees Celsius on Tuesday lunchtime.
This is according to measurements from the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss. This means that the 20-degree mark was reached around three weeks earlier than average this year on the southern side of the Alps, as reported by MeteoSwiss at the request of the Keystone-SDA news agency.
In the reference period from 1991 to 2020, the 20-degree mark south of the Alps was not cracked on average until March 15.
However, the time for the first 20 degrees in a year can vary considerably. The mark has also been exceeded much earlier.
In 2013, over 20 degrees was measured for the first time on the south side of the Alps on January 4. In 1941, the Locarno-Monti measuring station only exceeded 20 degrees for the first time on May 21.
