From Friday, there will be a few days of very mild temperatures for the time of year predicted, to even 13 degrees. Next week is again a bit chilly, so the warmest year ever is a toss-up. An improvement of the average - at least 12,0 degrees - seems unlikely. Twelve days of patience for the final figures
But the past year had some penalty exceptions. After a normal winter, followed this year with a warm spring and an exceptional summer. Uccle drew even two consecutive heat waves. The first - from 13 to 27 July - was only just past day or two later, there was already the second, that the ten days could stretch to 7 August. The six weeks between 26 June and 7 August were the hottest ever, still a lot better than the legendary summer of 1947, 1976 and 2003.
With an average temperature of 19.8 degrees was the warmest summer since the beginning of the observations in Brussels-Uccle, in 1833. The previous record from 2003 was just 0.1 degree broken. The legendary summer of 1976 recorded a 19.2. With 72 dry days, it was also the driest summer since 183 years - at least in the days without rain are reckoned, not in amount of precipitation.