Germany Sweltered Through Third-Warmest Year on Record in 2019
Germany Sweltered Through Third-Warmest Year on Record in 2019
(Bloomberg) -- Germany had the third-warmest year on record this year, including the hottest and sunniest June since regular measurements began in 1881, according to the nation’s Deutscher Wetterdienst weather service.
The average temperature in 2019 was 10.2 Celsius (50.4 Fahrenheit), 1.3 degrees above the average between 1981 and 2010 and the third warmest after 2018 (10.5 Celsius) and 2014 (10.3 Celsius), according to the DWD‘s preliminary assessment of data from its 2,000 weather stations.
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In Lingen, near the Dutch border, the temperature hit a record 42.6 Celsius on July 25, while the coldest temperature was minus 18.6 Celsius in Deutschneudorf-Bruederwiese on the Czech border on Jan. 21.
The month of June “marked the beginning of another far too dry and extremely hot summer,” the DWD said. “Rivers dried out and the forests also suffered from extreme drought.”
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