PRAGUE: The Czech capital Prague has experienced its hottest year since records started in 1775, the weather institute said on Saturday.
"In 2018, the average annual temperature in Prague-Clementium was 12.8 degrees Celsius (55.04 Fahrenheit), or 3.2 degrees more compared to the average between 1775-2014," the Hydrometeorological Institute said in a statement that referred to its historic Clementinum weather station at a former Jesuit college in the Czech capital. The institute described this year´s temperature as being "extraordinarily above normal".
The previous record annual average temperature in Prague, 12.5 degrees Celsius, was set in 2014 and 2015.
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