The Czech Republic’s Big Freeze by the Numbers

This week’s arctic weather outbreak took a drastic turn last night with one of the biggest temperature drops on record occuring as temps in some places fell from -4°C to -18°C overnight, according to the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute.

Lowest recorded temperature in Prague this year: -16°C (January 11, 2017)

Lowest historic temperature on record in Prague: –27.6°C (recorded from Clementinum March 1, 1785)

Lowest recorded temperature in the Czech Republic this year: -34.6°C (Březník, Šumava)

Lowest temperature recorded last night: -27.5°C (Rokytské slate)

Lowest recorded temperature in Moravia this year: -25.7°C (Štítné nad Vláří breaking its 2009 record of -23.0°C)

Lowest historic temperature recorded in Czechia: -42.2°C (recorded February 11, 1929 in Litvínovice near České Budějovice)

Highest reported wind speed in the Czech mountains this year: 90 km/h

Current warmest place in the country: Hejnice -8.7°C

Highest temperature recorded in Bohemia last night: -0.5 (Prague, Clementinum)

Lowest temperature recorded in Moravia last night: Hostalkova Vsetínsko (-21.4)

Deaths due to severe cold: 25 (4 in Prague)

Number of years weather has been recorded from Clementinum: 265 (Meteorlogical measurements were begun here in 1752; it is one of the oldest weather observation stations in Central Europe.)

See here for more extreme weather records in the Czech Republic.