Hungary: Fireworks to be held on National Holiday, had to be canceled due to wrong estimate of meteorologists, suspended

In Hungary, two meteorological officials were suspended just because their predictions about the weather turned out to be wrong. The government had plans to set off fireworks on the occasion of the national holiday but had to be postponed due to the forecast of bad weather. Meteorologists had predicted a storm in Budapest on the occasion of the National Holiday, but the storm did not come. After this the Hungarian government suspended the head of the National Meteorological Service and his deputy.

Hungarian Technology Minister László Palkowicz has ordered the sacking of NMS President Cornelia Radix and his deputy Gyula Horvath without assigning any reason. The Danube River in Budapest is usually accompanied by fireworks each year, which is believed to be Europe's largest fireworks show. Similarly, fireworks were planned here on Friday but had to be canceled at the last minute due to weather forecast.

Now this week there will be fireworks

However, 40 thousand crackers were ready to be launched from 240 points in a five-kilometre area. Even after the show was cancelled, it has been rescheduled for this week. Government-backed media criticized the Meteorological Department for incorrect weather forecasts and said that the National Meteorological Services gave incorrect weather information. In such a situation, NMS has also done the work of misleading the operation team ready for security. Every year on August 20, a fireworks show is held in the Hungarian capital Budapest on the occasion of St. Stephen's Day. This day is celebrated in the memory of the independence of Christian Hungary thousands of years ago, which is still intact today.

Opposed to fireworks

However, every year huge expenditure is incurred on this firework, which has also been opposed. The economy of a country with a population of less than 10 million is also not so strong and its opponents believe that in exchange for such fireworks, that money should be used to strengthen the country's economy. A public petition was also signed in this regard, which was signed by two lakh people.