Start to November with record temperatures in the mountains
Published: Sunday, Nov 3rd 2024, 14:10
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The month of November has started with new temperature records in the Swiss mountains. Last Friday, a new record high of 4284 meters above sea level was recorded.
The previous record was set on November 11, 2015, according to the national weather service MeteoSwiss on Sunday. A whole series of new November temperature records were also set.
A new high of 4.8 degrees was set on the 3571-metre-high Jungfraujoch. For the first time, the temperature on Friday did not drop below freezing on a November day.
A new high of 12.7 degrees was measured on the 2691-metre-high Weissfluhjoch near Davos on Saturday. Friday's 11.2 degrees on the 2501-metre-high Säntis in eastern Switzerland was also a record.
November temperature records were also set on Saturday on the 2472-metre-high Great St. Bernard Pass in Valais with 11.9 degrees and on the 2260-metre-high Bernina Pass in the canton of Graubünden with 13.7 degrees.
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