Climate

Christmas and New Year holidays will be warmer than normal and with no snow. This is predicted by the climatologist Prof. Georgi Rachev. The only chance to spend holidays in a snow-covered setting will be on the high mountains, he said.
 

Rainfalls starting in the morning from west will extend to most of the country by the end of today, while in the northwest regions one should expect colder weather and mainly snowfalls, which will be changing to rain later today.

Reduced visibility in the morning in some lowland parts of West Bulgaria and in the Danube Plain. Light to moderate wind from east and southeast.

AFP - NASA's most advanced space laser satellite blasted off Saturday on a mission to track ice loss around the world and improve forecasts of sea level rise as the climate warms.

Cloaked in pre-dawn darkness, the $1 billion, half-ton ICESat-2 launched aboard a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force base in California at 6:02 am (1302 GMT).

AFP - Manmade global warming and a natural surge in Earth's surface temperature will join forces to make the next five years exceptionally hot, according to a study published Tuesday.

Planet-warming greenhouse gases surged to new highs as abnormally hot temperatures swept the globe and ice melted at record levels in the Arctic last year because of climate change, a major US report said on Wednesday.

The unstable weather over the country will last until August 10, said BASF's meteorologist Anastasia Stoycheva on Monday to bTV.

"We had a similar summer in 2014 when the temperatures were lower than usual. 2012 was unusually hot. Now we are more like the time in 2014. So far, the amount of rain in Sofia has exceeded the climate and more precipitation is expected, "Stoycheva said.

Cyprus has a role to play in issues concerning climate change by building up a new station to monitor the effects, General Secretary of the World Meteorological Organisation, Petteri Taalas told CNA.

The Sahara Desert has grown significantly over the past century, and climate change is largely to blame, according to a new study.

Analysing data collected since 1923, a research team examined the different factors that contributed to changes in rainfall in the Sahara region.

The Hydro-Meteorological Institute (RHMZ) announced this on its website on Thursday.

There will be moderate to strong frost in the mornings, while the temperature will remain below zero around the clock.

The RHMZ issued a warning, saying that this cold wave will last at least five consecutive days in most parts of Serbia.

Spring weather will make us happy until Friday, and snow comes on Saturday, according to the mid-term weather forecast.
 
Today the temperatures will rise to 15-16 degrees, in places will reach to 17-18 degrees. The weather will be sunny, clear and very pleasant.

By Friday, weather will remain at relatively high daily temperatures, with tumultuous clouds, with more sun.