Heaviest 20 Minutes Rainfall, world record in Curtea de Argeș, Romania
Curtea de Argeș, Romania -- During a heavy rainfall, at the pluviometric station at Curtea de Argeş , was recorded the largest rainfall in the world, falling in 20 minutes: 206 liters / sqm, as confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ,which is a world record for the Heaviest 20 Minutes Rainfall /Greatest Observed Point Rainfall In 20 Minutes, according to the World Record Academy.
Curtea de Argeș is a municipality in Romania on the left bank of the Argeş River, where it flows through a valley of the lower Carpathians (the Făgăraș Mountains), on the railway from Pitești to the Turnu Roșu Pass.The city is one of the oldest in Rumania.It is part of Argeș County.
On July 7, 1889, at the pluviometric station at Curtea de Argeş , was recorded the largest rainfall in the world, falling in 20 minutes: 206 liters / sqm, as confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ,which is a world record for the Heaviest 20 Minutes Rainfall /Greatest Observed Point Rainfall In 20 Minutes , according to the World Record Academy.
"Of all those 100 climatic records that we have owned, we have to learn something.
"There are no records to praise, which will remain in time in the book of praise of the Romanian Academy or the Ministry of the Environment, but there are 100 records to which we must be very careful and who carry us with the thought and the fact that we must we take action against climate change so that our life on Earth is as long as possible.
"And I am referring to future generations, "said Gratiela Gavrilescu , Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Environment, at the Romanian Academy, the Focus Energetic reports.
"We have the world record with the highest rainfall in the world at Curtea de Arges in 1888 on July 7 and 206 l / mp in just 20 minutes. This year, at Curtea de Arges, we had only one liter of rain on the same day, "the minister said, adding that the precipitation record is included in the statistics of the World Meteorological Organization."
General Manager of the Romanian National Meteorological Administration Elena Mateescu highlighted the intensity of the extreme phenomena of the last time: "Certainly this year will be added to the hierarchy of the warmest years in the history of meteorological measurements. This year we had 4908 now-casting warnings over 1700 in the past few years, of which 3000 warnings were only in the summer months. "
"The highest amount of precipitation recorded in 20 minutes was in 1989 at Curtea de Arges, 206 l / mp. On July 7, 2018 there was only one liter in 24 hours. "
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