Sat, May 26 2012

Temperatures return to near 'normal' as Bulgaria's big freeze ends

Fri, Feb 03 2012 10:04 CET

byThe Sofia Echo staff

2620 Views
Temperatures return to near 'normal' as Bulgaria's big freeze ends

Photo: Reuters

Temperatures are finally returning to something resembling "normality" following a spell of record freezing conditions throughout Bulgaria.

Sofia's commuters met snowy conditions as they journeyed to work on the morning of February 3. The temperature in the capital was minus five degrees, no longer exceptionally cold for the time of year. Just a couple of days ago the early morning temperature was minus 19 degrees. Elsewhere in Bulgaria, Veliko Turnovo was minus 11 degrees, Varna minus five and Plovdiv minus six.  Only the far north of Bulgaria was still in the grip of an exceptionally cold snap. Vidin and Rousse were both minus 12 degrees.

Elsewhere in Europe temperatures were also starting to rise. Athens was a mild eight degrees, Istanbul was three degrees and Izmir seven degrees. But Moscow, at minus 11, Kyiv at minus 13 and Bucharest at minus 12 still remained within the grip of the big freeze.

Meanwhile, London was also experiencing some unusually cold weather, standing at minus two degrees.

  • Print
  • Send via email
  • Translate to
  • Share:

To post comments, please, Login or Register.


Please read the The Sofia Echo forum comments policy.

More in this category

Saab awarded $2.4M military training equipment contract in Bulgaria

The funding is provided under the foreign military sales programme of the US army's Program Executive Office of Simulation, Training and Instrumentation.

Two Brits fined for hooliganism in Bulgaria’s Veliko Turnovo

The UK nationals were arrested after throwing beer bottles at people after being refused entry to a restaurant that had closed for the night.

Tourism: Bulgaria to spend 300M leva on restoring castles, ancient sites

Restoration and development projects include Madara Horseman, Arbanassi fortress, Magura cave.

Sovereign Order of Malta assists hospital in Bulgaria’s Iskrets

Simeon Saxe-Coburg and his spouse Margarita opened a new heating and insulation system at the Tsar Ferdinand Hospital for Pulmonary Diseases in Iskrets, a project implemented thanks to the Embassy of the Sovereign Order of Malta in Sofia and the Nando Peretti Foundation.

Bulgarian Parliament passes confiscation act

According to the law's provisions, the commission will have the power to investigate individuals without prior notification and would not require a criminal conviction in order to launch an investigation.

© 2000-2012, Sofia Echo Media Ltd.

Web Design by RIZN

Sofia Echo Media is part of the Economedia Group.
The news and information content on this website is provided by our editorial team and is copyrighted. Any unauthorised reproduction or use of it is strictly forbidden. Reproduction of this website's content is permitted only with prior written permission from the Editor-in-Chief, should be propertly acredited and provide an active link back to our site. Comments posted by the website's visitors are independent of the editorial materials and do not represent the views of sofiaecho.com. Sofia Echo Media cannot be held responsible for the statements contained in visitor comments. The percentаge change in the shares' prices are based on the price of the last transaction of the current session compared to the price of the last transaction of the previous session. Bulgarian Stock Exchange data is not real-time, but updated every 15 minutes, and should not be used as a basis for decisions about buying or selling stock options.