It is so warm in Croatian Split and the surrounding area that residents and tourists spent Saturday as if it were the height of summer – sunbathing and swimming in the sea.
Mario Tisauri, a resident of Slavonski Brod in eastern Croatia, came to Split for a football match. He was wearing a winter jacket, which he had to take off immediately because the thermometers showed about 20 degrees.
“I couldn't believe how nice it was,” he told a Reuters news agency reporter moments before he jumped into the Adriatic Sea.
Valentine, a 21-year-old tourist from Germany, noted that staying here gives her a respite from the weather in Dusseldorf:
– It's very cold in Germany now, about five degrees Celsius, and also very rainy and foggy. It's really beautiful and sunny here. And you can swim, which is impossible in Germany.
Croatian meteorologists point out that it will still be 20 degrees on the southern Adriatic coast on Sunday. It should cool down on Monday. Data collected since 1948 show that the average maximum temperature in Split in November is 12.7 degrees Celsius.
Main photo source: Reuters