CLIMATE IN SLOVENIA IN 2014

Abstract

Mean annual temperature was the highest ever in the lowlands; the anomaly was between 2 and 3 °C. In the mountains, year 2014 was the second warmest ever. There was only one heat wave in the first half of June. The first four and the last three months of the year were significantly warmer than average in the reference period. Precipitation exceeded the average; the anomaly was at least 10 %. On several stations it was the wettest year ever. The Goriška region reported 50 % more precipitation than normal. Bright sunshine duration reached the averages in Maribor, elsewhere the anomaly was negative, but sunshine duration mostly exceeded 90 % of the averages.