Avoid going out in Bucharest today and tomorrow during the day and prepare for two more days of heat in the southern part of Romania, as the heat wave yellow code for Saturday and Sunday will be prolonged for two more days.

Maximum temperatures in Oltenia, Muntenia, the south of Moldova and Dobrogea will stay between 35 and 37 degrees Celsius and the humidity- temperature index will exceed the maximum 80 units after lunch.

Elsewhere in Romania, in mount and mountain area the weather could be unstable until Tuesday.

2010 will be the warmest year all over the world in the last 130 years. The warmest year so far was 2005, the year of the hurricane Katrina. Such warm years are usually associated with floods and large hurricanes.

Summers in Romania have been very warm and dry in the last couple of years. The summer of 2007 was the warmest in Romania in the last 100 years, with maximum temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius over several consecutive days. The maximum temperature then was of 44.3 degrees Celsius at Calafat. This was only 0.2 degrees Celsius below the record maximum ever in Romania, registered in 1951.