THE TEMPERATURE WILL REACH 30 DEGREE C ON APRIL 15

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[12:19 pm] 11 April, 2006

In comparison with the previous year this April is warmer. This fact
has aroused public concern.

According to the Chief of the Hydrometereological Service Department
Zarui Petrosyan the warm weather is not queer at all, “The sudden
changes of southern and northern warm and cold currents at the
end of March are not unusual and abnormal. Such normal changes are
characteristic of this period. The temperature of last April was 22
– 23 degree C and this year it has reached to 23 – 24 degree C. The
temperature will still rise during the coming 10 days for 2 – 5 degree
C. The rain will fall only after the noon. The highest temperature
will be on April 15 – about 30 degree C.

Thus there is no need to worry.”

There are cases of freezing in this time of the year.

But according to the data of the Hydrometereological Service there
won’t be frost cases theoretically, “The probability of freezing is
small. An abrupt fall of temperature by 2 – 3 degree C was fixed in
2003 and by 1 degree C in 2004. There were severe frosts in Ararat
valley in 2004 as a result of which we did not have apricot this
year. We have had warm temperature since last year. Nobody can
exclude the possibility of temperature fall in 2 years’ time. The
weather does not have a definite plot; none of us can foresee its
further changes. We can only predict the changes of the coming 5
days. The average time of freezing is from April 25 to May 13. The
climate got warmer gradually this year. There is no need to fear the
overflows as the snow level is 2000 meters height in the country,”
added Zarui Petrosyan.

As for the keen public interest towards the weather changes Zarui
Petrosyan says that it is determined by the extreme changes of global
climate in comparison of which the Armenian climate is milder and
warmer.

“Mainly elderly women are interested in climate changes as they affect
their blood pressure and cause headaches. It is normal,” says one of
the Hydrometereological Service workers.