The news of equaling the inglorious record was announced on Saturday, September 7 in the evening. The Institute of Meteorology and Water Management emphasized that the situation may soon change for the worse and water in Wisła there will be even less.
Warsaw. The record for the lowest water level in the Vistula River has been equaled
“Station Warsaw-Boulevards, Vistula River. The record low water level from 2015 (26 cm) has just been equalized. Due to the lack of rainfall and high temperature, further drops in water level should be expected, even to approx. 24 cm” – we read in the announcement IMWM.
The IMGW reported on Thursday that the water level in the Vistula is approaching a record low, recorded 9 years ago. At that time, the measurement station recorded a value of 29 centimeters.
Kacper Kolibabski writes more about hydrological drought in his text:
Nowy Sącz: Record low water levels on two rivers in the city
The situation is equally dramatic on the tributaries of the Dunajec. On Saturday, meteorologists and hydrologists reported that in Nowy Sącz, record low levels were recorded in two rivers flowing through the city – Kamienica and Łubinka. These are the right tributaries of the Dunajec. The water in Łubinka is 182 centimeters high, which is a new record. The previous one was set 50 years ago. In the Kamienica flowing near the old town of Nowy Sącz, the water is 68 centimeters high, which is one centimeter less than the previous record from 2022. In the Sądecki region, the Łososina River in Jakubkowice also recorded a record.
MGW warns that due to weeks of drought, Polish rivers are reaching record low levels. The weekend of September 6-7 is hot and cloudless almost all over Poland. The spokesman for the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, Grzegorz Walijewski, said that temperatures in the entire first week of September exceeded national standards by 5 degrees Celsius. In the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, these standards were exceeded by as much as 10 degrees Celsius.