Switzerland experienced an exceptional weather year in 2024
Published: Friday, Dec 20th 2024, 18:00
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Switzerland has had an extremely warm year. It experienced the mildest winter on record and some very wet months, as the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology reported on Friday.
The average annual temperature in 2024 across the country was 1.4 degrees above the 1991 norm in 2020. Precipitation totals reached 90 to 115 percent in most areas, as the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss) writes on its website. The annual total of sunshine duration was between 80 and 90 percent.
The winter of 2023/24 was the mildest since measurements began in 1864, with temperatures 2.8 degrees above the norm. But it was not only mild, it also brought precipitation totals of 130 to 160 percent, as MeteoSwiss writes.
Above-average precipitation also fell in most areas in spring. The very wet conditions on the southern side of the Alps and the neighboring areas were striking, according to the report.
The spring was correspondingly poor in sunshine: at several measurement locations, it was one of the ten least sunny springs since measurements began.
Warm summer, characterized by storms
The summer was the sixth warmest since records began. According to MeteoSwiss, there were an unusually high number of tropical nights on the southern side of the Alps in the extremely warm month of August.
The summer was also characterized by severe storms, for example in the Zermatt and Misox regions and in parts of the Upper Valais and Ticino in June, as well as in the Bernese Oberland in August.
The three fall months together brought above-average precipitation totals in many areas, but were mild overall.
Winter made its first appearance in September with exceptional amounts of snow at higher altitudes. A second heavy slump followed in November at low altitudes on both sides of the Alps.
https://www.meteoschweiz.admin.ch/ueber-uns/meteoschweiz-blog/de/2024/12/2024-mildester-winter-nasser-fruehling-warmer-unwettersommer.html
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