While Europe is experiencing temperatures of up to 50 degrees Celsius, the summer in Bosnia this year was pretty rainy. According to meteorologist Zeljko Majstorovic, the country is in a very good position compared to the rest of the world regarding global warming.

Although it seems like Bosnia did not even have a real summer this year, this perception is ‘misleading’, Majstorovic said.  

“The temperatures are not that low, they are higher than average, but because of the frequent weather changes, the perception is that it is colder than it truly is,” he said, adding that there were colder summers with even more rainfall in the country in the past.  

Part of this perception also comes from the fact that the month of April this year was one of the warmest Aprils in Bosnia in recorded history.  

Excluding the southern part of Herzegovina, Bosnia is located in a region where rainfall is frequent, and it should not surprise anyone, he said.  

“The number of rainy and sunny days is about the same,” he said.  

The country has a large number of mountains of which many are higher than 2,000 metres, which is also why fog is prevalent.  

“We could say that we are in a better situation than many throughout the planet,” he said.  

“We are talking about a global process, the Earth is getting warmer and warmer. Those extremes are the consequence of an increase in releasing warm energy into the atmosphere,” he said, adding that the seas are getting warmer as well.  

“We are, in this region, even spared of some of those difficulties to an extent – such as tornadoes, hurricanes, intense droughts or heat waves. All of these international climate treaties do not exist without reason,” Majstorovic said.