The head of the Hungarian Meteorological Service and another high-ranking official from the unit were fired for making the wrong forecast about the weather.
According to the BBC’s report, St. Stefan, which will be celebrated in the country on Saturday, was canceled due to extraordinary weather conditions, but the weather forecasts were wrong.
Hungary was planning to celebrate St. Stephen’s day by holding ‘Europe’s largest fireworks festival’. However, the celebrations were postponed to a week later due to the weather forecasts that came 7 hours before the celebrations.
According to weather forecasts, a rainstorm was expected during the day in the capital Budapest, but it was not expected. 40,000 people were assigned to use fireworks, and more than 2 million people were expected to attend the celebrations.
EXPECTED RAIN DID NOT FALL IN BUDAPEST
Despite the extraordinary weather forecasts of the National Meteorological Service, the weather in Budapest was normal during the day and the expected rain fell in the east of the country.
“LOWEST POSSIBILITY” REALIZED
Following the ‘failure’, the head of the National Meteorological Service, Kornelia Radics, and her deputy, Gyula Horvath, were fired on Monday by the decision of the country’s Minister of Innovation, Laszlo Palkovics.
The Meteorological Service apologized in a statement on its Facebook account and stated that it was “the least likely”.
*The visuals of the news were served by the Associated Press.