forecast
Cooling down after the summer weekend
Daisies and dandelions in a meadow in front of the Russian chapel on Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt. photo
© Andreas Arnold/dpa
The summer weather with unusually high temperatures will take a short break in the coming days. The German Weather Service even expects night frost.
After early summer temperatures comes the middle of the week Cooling down for large parts of Germany. A cold front will bring rain and cooler temperatures from Tuesday, as the German Weather Service (DWD) in Offenbach predicted.
“On Tuesday the cold front, including occasional rain, will move eastward,” explained meteorologist Marcel Schmid from the DWD. In the far east and southeast, however, it is still enough for 26 to 29 degrees. “In contrast, the maximum is 12 to 15 degrees in the far west of the country.”
On Wednesday night there will also be a lot of clouds and rain in the east and southeast. In the Alps the snow line drops to 1000 to 1200 meters. It’s getting cold: In the southwest and in the Alps, temperatures drop to 5 to 1 degrees, otherwise they are 9 to 5 degrees.
On Wednesday, the sun may appear more frequently again during the day, said Schmid. Otherwise, the DWD expects some clouds across the country and also rain in the north. The daily highs are between 11 and 17 degrees and “are about what you would expect at this time of year.”
North-south gradient in weather
On Thursday night it will remain mostly dry and only slightly cloudy. In the northwest it cools down to 9 to 6 degrees. With the exception of the northwest and north, frost often occurs near the ground at temperatures as low as minus 5 degrees.
According to the DWD, there are signs of a north-south divide in the following days. While the northern half experiences rather changeable weather, the southern half is quite friendly. The temperatures are rising slightly again, and “summer temperatures of around 25 degrees are possible again in the south and southwest at the weekend.”
Measured over 30 degrees in the Rhine Valley
It has already been unusually warm in Germany in the past few days. On Saturday there was probably a hot day earlier in the year than ever since systematic weather recording began. The DWD announced this after preliminary data measured 30.1 degrees in Ohlsbach in the Rhine Valley (Baden-Württemberg). From 30 degrees onwards, the weather experts speak of a hot day. Previously, the German heat record for the first decade of April (April 1st to April 10th) was 27.7 degrees – measured in 2011.
According to DWD information, the average daily maximum for the first ten days of April from 1961 to 1990 was 10.8 degrees. The fact that such an average value deviates greatly from a daily maximum value at the warmest station in Germany is typical for “transitional months” such as April. “But this time we are looking at a distance of 19.3 degrees,” explained the head of the climate monitoring department at the DWD, Andreas Becker, with a view to the value measured on Saturday. That is quite extraordinary.