PHOTOS: Extreme cold to come next week in Hungary, snow, frost covers the country

Next week will be the coldest period of this winter, the Hungarian Meteorological Service (OMSZ) told MTI, the Hungarian News Agency. As a result, there will be a lot of ground frost, impacting plants considerably.

In January, a constant West-South West wind stream brought wet and mild weather to the Carpathian Basin in the last few weeks. However, the direction of that wind stream changed last week to the Northwest, causing less precipitation and a temperature closer to the country’s historic winter average.

In the Bakony Mountain, 10 cm of snow is expected today:

The OMSZ added that Monday morning would be the coldest. The temperature will be between minus 1 and 9 degrees. Everybody should prepare for that change since until now, the average temperature of the last 30 days exceeded the normal by 3-6 °C. Thus, the difference will be palpable.

Snowfall in the Mátra:

And on the Kékes (1014m):

Until now, ground frosts were rare in most Hungarian territories. The upper layer of the ground froze only for some nights. OMSZ recalled that the mild winter harmed plants and disturbed their vegetation cycle. Furthermore, the number of parasites and pathogens was not reduced because of the warm weather.