Meteorology

In the morning hours, visibility will be reduced by fog in places in the plains and valleys, but during the day, mostly sunny weather will prevail. In the hours around and after noon, cumulus and cumulus-rain clouds will develop and in many places short-term rain accompanied by thunder will fall. It will blow weak, in the eastern areas to a moderate north-easterly wind.

After the rainy night, during the day, the precipitation will gradually decrease and in places will stop. In separate places, mainly in the northeastern part of Bulgaria, the cloudiness will break. Light to moderate winds will blow from the north-northwest, in the extreme eastern areas from the northeast.

The National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology has issued a yellow code for intense rain and thunderstorms for today, May 17, for almost all of Bulgaria. Exceptions are only four districts in the north-eastern part of the country - Shumen, Silistra, Dobrich and Varna.

The temperature is expected to reach more than 30 degrees in some parts of the country, with some occurrence of sudden rain showers, the Turkish State Meteorological Services has announced.

According to the warning of meteorologist Marko ubrilo, showers and storms are expected especially over the western parts of central and southern Serbia, Srem, Mava, umadija, parts of western and southern Baka, in the south of Srem, Mava and umadija and the east of the region of central and southern Banat, Stig and Branievo.

The minimum temperatures will be between 10°C and 17°C, and the maximum - from 22C° to 29°C, slightly lower on the high western fields and along the Black Sea.

The wind throughout the country will be oriented from the east-southeast, it will be moderate.

"In Serbia today, the weather will be mostly cloudy, in places with rain and showers with thunder, with more precipitation in the afternoon and in the evening," announced the Republic Hydrometeorological Institute.
A weak and moderate wind will blow, strong in the Koava area, and occasionally stormy, southeasterly in the south of the Banat and in the lower Danube region.

Today, a moderate, temporarily strong northeasterly wind will blow in the eastern regions, with which colder air will continue to invade. The minimum temperatures will be from 7 to 12 degrees Celsius, and the maximum between 12°C and 17°C, in Sofia around 13°C.

NASA launched two small satellites designed to track tropical cyclones hour by hour from a base in New Zealand yesterday, in a project that could improve weather predictions on devastating storms.

Today before noon it will still be sunny, but around and after noon over Western and Central Bulgaria, and in the evening and overnight against Tuesday and over Eastern Bulgaria, cumulus and cumulus-rain clouds will develop and there will be short-term precipitation accompanied by thunder. Hail is also possible.