Record high temperature measured in Hungary

Record high temperatures were measured in southern Hungary on Wednesday and also on Thursday morning, breaking the national records for the day, the weather service said.

HungaroMet said on Facebook on Friday that even in the coolest hours of the morning, the temperature did not drop below 25.6 degrees Celsius at a measuring station in downtown Szeged, in southern Hungary, on Thursday morning.

The previous record on that date was 25.2 degrees, in Farkasgyepű in 1952.

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