July 2025 Among the Wettest in Recorded History

July will rank among the four rainiest July months in the 168-year recording period - "perhaps it is even the third wettest" month, said Alexander Orlik, climatologist at Geosphere Austria, on Monday upon request from the APA. Additionally, preliminary data shows that "significantly too little sunshine" has been recorded so far. About a quarter of the normal value is missing.

July 2025: 50 Percent More Precipitation Than in an Average July

According to the forecast from Geosphere, more rain is expected in the last days of July, especially on Tuesday from Vorarlberg to western Lower Austria. The month has already been "very wet," with 50 percent more precipitation than in an average July, explained Orlik. He spoke of a "compensation for the six very dry months before." It is likely to be the wettest July since 2012. The exact evaluation will only be determined after the end of the month.

The temperatures in this year's July were about 1.5 degrees warmer compared to the climate average of the years 1961 to 1990, which was not yet as strongly affected by climate change, reported Orlik. Compared to the period from 1991 to 2020, however, the values are "approximately balanced" and this year's July will be "similarly cool" as 2020 or 2014, said the climatologist. June 2025, on the other hand, was the third warmest and the second sunniest in Austrian measurement history.

(APA/Red)

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