Roughly quarter of country's measuring stations register record temperatures

Almost a quarter of the country's measuring stations on Saturday registered record temperatures, meteorologists confirmed. New records for the date of August 27 were set at 51 of 237 stations. The highest for the day was recorded in the municipalities of Dobřichovice and Neumětely in Central Bohemia, west of Prague. Further records could be broken on Sunday, when temperatures are again expected to reach at least 31 degrees Celsius.

Author: Jan Velinger