Pavićević warns of rising temperatures in recent decades: Winter warmer than average

If the trend of sudden climate changes continues, it will have numerous consequences on the human environment, life and health, warned meteorologist Dušan Pavićević.

In an interview with "Vijesti", he said that the sudden rise in temperatures will affect production, the development of some diseases, as well as water supply.

"If it continues, of course there will be consequences. We already notice that some plants bloom earlier. Some insects appear that were not there before. Or they were less frequent, so now they are more common," said Pavićević.

Pavićević said that "last February was significantly warmer than normal".

"It was the warmest in Podgorica since 1949, when measurements were taken. That's about the maximum daily temperature. February was also the second warmest when it comes to minimum temperature. So, February was definitely over five degrees warmer than the seventy-five-year average," Pavićević said.

According to him, "the entire winter was warmer than average".

“Of course it was warmer. January and December were warm. March is also likely to be warmer than average. "All the months that we count in the calendar winter were warmer or will be warmer," said the interlocutor of "Vijesti".

Pavićević emphasizes that "all this is a consequence of the large increase in temperature in the last 20, 30 years".

"If you compare the temperature during the first 50 years of measurement and the last 25, that is, the first 45 and the last 35, that trend is very bad. Human activity is generally considered to be the culprit of climate change. Some claim so, and some say it is not, I will not get involved in that assessment", emphasized Pavićević.

He said that the amount of precipitation in the north of Montenegro often varies from season to season.

"We have very variable snow and snowfall here. It seems that there is a little less of it than it used to be. More often, there are years and seasons when there is significantly less snow, which does not mean that there cannot be more next year," Pavićević said.

Earlier, the Center for Climate Change of the University of Donja Gorica (UDG) said that Montenegro belongs to the region of Europe that is "most vulnerable to the consequences of climate change".

They pointed out that due to sudden changes, in the last 30 years, the average temperature has increased by 1,1 degrees Celsius.