Bad weather across the country until Saturday. Blizzards in the mountains

The code orange for blizzards has been extended and a severe weather advisory will be in effect until Saturday. The weather will be dreary and cold across the country. Highs will be between 0 and 12 degrees, with the highest values ​​in the south. Rainfalls will cover all regions: it will rain in the southern regions, it will be mixed in the northern half and snow in the mountains. Amounts of water 30 l/m2 will collect, at high altitudes, a layer of snow will be deposited and there will be periods of blizzard and reduced visibility.

The wind blow in most of the territory, and in the south and east, gusts will reach 75 km/h. There will be persistent clouds in the sky of the Capital and it will temporarily rain moderately quantitatively. The wind will reach speeds of 65 km/h, and the thermometers will not be more than 8 degrees Celsius. In the mountain areas, it will be cold, it will snow and a new layer of snow will fall. The wind will intensify, and the snow will continue until the weekend.

As a result of the weather phenomena, during the yellow code, until today at 10:00, the firefighters carried out 61 interventions (54 in Bucharest and 7 in Ilfov) for the removal of 41 trees, 12 construction elements, 6 pillars , 1 electricity cable and 1 traffic light. 32 cars were damaged, the authorities reported.

There will be rainfalls and snowfalls in all regions in the next few days, without exception. It will also snow in the plains, because on Thursday the minimums will be -2 degrees in Oltenia and -1 in Muntenia. In Dobrogea, the minimums will reach +1 C.

Today, April 4 minimum temperatures ranged from minus 4C to +9C, and minus 10C in the mountains. Highs ranged from 1C to 12C.

On Wednesday, April 5, lows will range from minus 3C to +4C and highs from 0C to 9C, while Thursday, April 6 the lows will be from minus 3C to +4C and high from 0C to 10C.

Cyclone Mathis and the polar vortex 
Cyclone Mathis, as it was named by the French, brought strong winds and left thousands of homes without power in Britain a few days ago. A “branch” of this cyclone then reached the Mediterranean, reactivated and reached the Balkan Peninsula. It is not unusual for Mediterranean cyclones to form in the spring and autumn, but in this case, the special part is that the cold air mass coupled with the moist air masses and intense precipitation, including snow, occurred.
Cyclones of temperate latitudes are different from tropical cyclones. The notion of a cyclone makes people think of tropical cyclones, typhoons, hurricanes, but this is not the case in our climate zone. In temperate latitudes, only these extratropical cyclones, which occur in all seasons, are active.
For example, the blizzard is produced when we have a coupling between an anticyclone from the Russian area that brings the cold air mass and a cyclone that comes from the Mediterranean and brings the moisture-laden air.
The mass of cold air that will persist for a few more days on the territory of our country is an effect of Cyclone Mathis, but also of the weakening of the polar vortex, which means that the winds above the North Pole have weakened in intensity, the effect being that the masses of cold air they end up covering ever wider surfaces.
Although we are in April, on Tuesday morning there was snow even below 700 m altitude in Romania, and a layer of snow was deposited in cities such as Brașov and Sibiu. There was frost in many localities, and in the mountains, the minimum was -10 degrees (Ceahlău mountains).
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