THE TEMPERATURE WILL REACH 30 DEGREE C ON APRIL 15

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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.