2023-08-30 13:11:53
According to the preliminary balance sheet of the German Weather Service (DWD), the summer of 2023 is one of the series of overly warm summers in Germany. With an average temperature of 18.6 degrees, this year’s summer was 2.3 degrees above the value of the internationally valid reference period 1961 to 1990, the DWD reported on Wednesday evaluating its around 2000 measuring stations for the months of June to August. Compared to the current and warmer comparison period from 1991 to 2020, the deviation was exactly one degree. “Overly warm summers have been measured in Germany for 27 years now,” said DWD spokesman Uwe Kirsche. “Again we can experience climate change live.”
According to DWD information, the summer this year was characterized by large fluctuations: there was tropical heat, but also early autumn fresh temperatures. On June 3rd, in Sohland on the Spree, the nationwide summer low was recorded at minus 0.7 degrees. On July 15, on the other hand, the people in Möhrendorf-Kleinseebach in Bavaria started sweating at 38.8 degrees.
At around 270 liters per square meter, there was a good tenth more precipitation this summer than the average for the reference period 1961 to 1990. Up to 600 liters of precipitation per square meter were measured directly on the Alps over the course of the three months.
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The United Nations (UN) describes climate change as long-term changes in temperatures and weather patterns that have been “mainly due to human activities” since the 19th century – these are, according to the UN, primarily the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas .
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