Light clothing, plenty to drink – and of course a nice hat: for Luxembourg’s National Day next Tuesday you should not only prepare fashionably, but also keep an eye on the weather. Because record temperatures are expected. The thermometer has been hanging above the 30 degree mark since Thursday. The state weather service Meteolux has already declared an orange heat alert for the weekend.
No end to the heat wave
But the heat wave doesn’t end until the national holiday. For Tuesday, Meteolux is currently (as of June 19) expecting maximum temperatures of between 34 and 37 degrees, according to a spokesman for the weather service Daily newspaper-Request explained. That would be a real record – there hasn’t been such a hot national holiday since at least 1947.
1947 is an important starting year for the Luxembourg weather service: On January 1, 1947, Meteolux began the uninterrupted measurement of a “variety of atmospheric parameters,” as the weather service puts it. The temperature measurement series for June 23rd of each day is this Daily newspaper before. And temperatures of over 35 degrees have never been reached so far. The previous record: 31.7 degrees, in 2016.
On the coldest national holiday it was 14.6 degrees
By the way, the coldest national holiday was in 1978. At that time, Luxembourgers shivered in 14.6 degrees and rain to watch the army parade and a concert by the “Harmonie municipale” of the city of Luxembourg on the place d’Armes, as it happened in the Daily newspaper dated June 24, 1978.
Speaking of rain: The wettest national holiday was in 1960. Back then, 31 millimeters of water fell per square meter. After all, it was 29 degrees that day.
