A sandbank, and next to it the main stream with a record low water level. This is how the Vistula looked like on September 8 in the Zawadowskie Islands nature reserve. Now the situation has changed dramatically. The current water level in the Vistula is 186 centimetres. Meteorologists predict that it will fall.
On Friday (September 20) at 9 a.m. the water level in the Vistula River in Warsaw reached 186 centimeters. That's two more than there were at 7 a.m.
It is therefore a very long way to the alarm level, which is 650 centimetres on the Vistula Boulevards.
This is what the Vistula River looked like in the Zawadowskie Islands reserve on September 8 tvnwarszawa.pl/Artur Węgrzynowicz
This is what the same place looks like on September 20thtvnwarszawa.pl/Artur Węgrzynowicz
At the beginning of September, a record was broken – 20 centimeters
As Grzegorz Walijewski, spokesman for the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, told us in the morning, today we have a culmination, after which the water level will drop.
– Next Tuesday evening it will drop back into the low zone, i.e. below 105 centimetres – the spokesman emphasised.
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Let us recall that on September 7, the water meter at the Warszawa-Bulwary hydrological station showed 26 centimeters, which was equal to the record from 2015. On September 10, the water gauge showed 20 centimeters. This was the lowest reading in the modern history of measurements at this location, i.e. since 1951.
Vistula in Warsaw (photo from 19/09/2024)Artur Węgrzynowicz / tvnwarszawa.pl
Now the river flows through its entire bed again
– How unpredictable the Vistula is can be seen in the Zawadowskie Islands nature reserve. From September 8 to today, the water level has risen by over 160 centimetres – reports Artur Węgrzynowicz, a reporter for tvnwarszawa.pl.
The photos he took on September 8 show the main stream at a record low. The rest of the riverbed has turned into a sandbank.
– It took only 12 days for single islands to emerge from the sandbank, and the river is once again flowing along its entire width – our reporter notes.
Main image source: tvnwarszawa.pl/Artur Węgrzynowicz