Temperatures in Belgrade 1780-2012

[alnortedelsur]

Today is good example of differences between Belgrade and surrounding places caused with urbanization.
Today low in Belgrade was 0c and high was 12c (as Dušan said). In Batajnica low was -2c and high was 9c.

I agree with you. Belgrade area is also humid in most of the year including winter. Ohio is also humid.

Agree, Castilla-Leon would be more or less similar, in winter temperatures, to Ohio and Belgrade area, but with a drier climate in general.

[Varda]

Agree, Castilla-Leon would be more or less similar, in winter temperatures, to Ohio and Belgrade area, but with a drier climate in general.

I noticed that places in the central/western Balkan which are on high elevation has colder summers than places on same/similar elevation and latitude in USA. Probably due to more precipitation and less sun. Mountain areas of western USA are surprusing dry.
Higher parts of central Balkan usually has 900-1100 mm of precipitation annualy and in more western areas significant more, an examples Kopaonik, Kolašin and Parg:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopaonik#Climate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolašin#Climate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parg

[Varda]

It was built up fast in the last 30 to 40 years. The expansion was not well planned and organized. So the final result is its not nice place to live, and then when I criticize Serbs you complain.

I know Zvezdara as my pocket. In 2004/2005/2006 on Zvezdara still there was solid number of old small houses. They are disappeared and today on their places are high-rise buildings.
40 years ago Zvezdara was peripheral suburb, and before WW2 it was village near Belgrade. Same goes for Karaburma. Grandfather of one my cousin about 60 years ago in Karaburma held the horses and lived a rural way of life.

[pulstar]

I know Zvezdara as my pocked. In 2004/2005/2006 on Zvezdara still there was solid number of old small houses. They are disappeared and today on their places are high-rise buildings.
40 years ago Zvezdara was peripheral suburb, and before WW2 it was village near Belgrade. Same goes for Karaburma. Grandfather of one my cousin about 60 years ago in Karaburma held the horses and lived a rural way of life.

I don't think its relevant what they were. Zeleni venac was for example small pond with few springs, Novi Beograd was pond, Karaburma was fishing settlement, Miljakovac was cattle farm, and so on.

Major problem is there was no urbanization explansion plan once it really became bigger city. And there still isn't. Major problem - everyone can be investor. No limitation as long as you can buy the land and start working. You don't even need to give any guarantees - in terms of proving you possess the capital to finish the project and/or to put down payment so that the city can finish the project in extreme case when investors decides not to finish (for whatever reasons). Worse, even projects that should have some sort of government guarentees like "Beograd na vodi" are really poorly executed and simply look bad. Only good looking buildings with fine architecture are located in areas that has been Belgrade since at least 1940's (if not even before).

And the problems don't end there.

Certain parts of city have no parks. Every bigger urban area should have some medium to large size park with trees and pedestrian paths which would be off-limit to any pubs, vehicles, and even bicycles. Right now, we got only few such areas and, ironically many of them are from the time before communism/socialism/authoritarianism took over, or the early days of communism. Zvezdara is now technically not a park as there are roads going through the middle of forest. Palilula as a whole has no park, unless you count botanical garden. The big park in Banjica is halved because someone decided to build church in the middle of forest, and so on.

Water is future concern of this city because some projects to build settlement near water purification factory near Makis is reason for concern (given how poorly everything works in civil engineering industry and urbanization in the past 50 years or so).

[Varda]

Maximum heights of snow cover in Belgrade 1949-2014. Record snow height was 80 cm in February 1963.