Clear, cloudy, but no precipitation, these are the weather conditions of the first week of January 2023, although soon, in the second week of the month, there will be significant precipitation in the territory. Precipitation will mainly be rain, while snow will appear in mountainous areas above 900 m above sea level, bringing a temporary drop in temperatures across the country.
Meanwhile, typical winter temperatures and heavy snowfall are predicted to arrive in Albania only from the third week of January and it will be the last 10 days of January that will bring the real winter to the entire Balkan region. , including Albania.
Early January temperatures across Europe have reached historic levels in a good part of the states.
The BBC reports that the temperature in Warsaw was 18.9 degrees Celsius on Sunday, while in Bilbao it was 25.1, 10 degrees above the average for the month.
While in Europe people have enjoyed the sun's rays, in North America snow storms continue, which have so far claimed the lives of 60 people. But while from that side of the Atlantic the frost seems to have conquered the coasts, on the European side the panorama is the opposite.
Temperatures in the Netherlands, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Denmark and Belarus have broken national records for the season. High temperatures were also recorded in Germany, France and Ukraine.
In Switzerland, temperatures reached up to 20 degrees Celsius, causing major economic problems in the winter tourism industry, where some resorts have been forced to use artificial snow in order not to lose customers, who are used to spending their winter holidays skiing.
However, not everywhere in Europe the situation is so sunny. Heavy snowfall is forecast in parts of Scandinavia and Russia, while temperatures in Moscow are expected to drop to -20C at the weekend.