Bulgaria was set for another chilly weekend on February 11 and 12 2012, with forecasts of cloudy weather with light snow and maximum temperatures remaining below zero degrees Celsius in most parts of the country.
 
Capital city Sofia would have a maximum of minus four on February 11 and zero on February 12, weather forecasts said. Across the country, temperatures would be relatively higher by the end of the weekend.
 
Weather in the mountains would be overcast, forecasters said.
 
On February 10, with 12 districts in the country again under a "Code Orange" dangerous weather warning, record-low temperatures were measured in four locations. "Code Orange" warnings covered Vidin, Montana, Vratsa, Pleven, Lovech, Gabrovo, Veliko Turnovo, Rousse, Turgovishte, Razgrad, Silistra, Shoumen.
 
Varna recorded minus 11.4 degrees, beating the Black Sea city’s 1979 record of minus 9.5. In Svishtov, the temperature reached minus 18.9 degrees, the lowest since 1954’s minus 18.5.
 
At Cape Emine, the morning temperature on February 10 fell to minus 10.2 degrees, beating the record for the day set in 1996 of minus 7.6 degrees. Rozhen peak in the Rhodopes recorded minus 17.5 degrees, lower than 2005’s 13.5 degrees.
 
The coldest place in Bulgaria on February 10 was Knezha, with minus 25 degrees, although this was not a record.
 
The weather institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Science said that late February and early March was expected to see rapid melting of snow, bringing with it the risk of flooding of the Arda and Maritsa rivers.
 
On February 10, Plovdiv airport was closed. Sofia Airport was operating under winter conditions, media reports said.
 
Scheduled maintenance was being conducted at Varna Airport.
 
The ports of Varna and Bourgas were working normally.
 
Border checkpoints at Kardam, Durankulak and Kapitan Andreevo were operating normally but those at Vidin, Oryahovo and Nikopol were closed, Mediapool said.
 
Checkpoints at the Serbian, Macedonian and Greek borders were operating normally.
Twenty-nine settlements in the Sofia, Dobrich, Smolyan, Pazardzhik, Stara Zagora and Haskovo districts had no electricity. Access to these settlements to deliver food, medicine and other essentials was difficult, reports said.
 
Thirty-one places had water supply problems.
 
Bulgarian National Television said on February 10 that in the village of Bisser, which was hit by flooding earlier this week after a dam wall broke, remained difficult.
 
A meeting was to be held in the village on the afternoon of February 10 for residents to be briefed on the distribution of grants and donations to those affected by the floods.
 
Pension payments were to be made ahead of schedule. The report said that the people of Bisser needed building materials to repair their homes. Many people needed home appliances.
 
The section of the Danube River at Silistra was almost completely frozen, reports said. Ice cover in the region of Rousse was reported to be 80 per cent.