Status: 10/31/2022 2:29 p.m
With up to 28.7 degrees, this October is one of the warmest since records began, according to the German Weather Service. It is possible that the previous peak value will even be exceeded.
According to previous data from the German Weather Service (DWD), October 2022 is at least one of the two warmest months since recording began. He was “extremely warm” and had “record potential”. According to the current status, the meteorologists assume an average value of 12.5 degrees, which corresponds to the record value from 2001.
Record temperatures in October
Andreas Köstler, SWR, daily news 11:00 a.m., October 31, 2022
Since it’s about tenths of a degree, it’s still open whether the previous October peak might even be exceeded, the DWD said on Monday in Offenbach. With an average temperature of 12.5 degrees, this year’s October is 3.5 degrees above the value of the internationally valid reference period 1961 to 1990. Compared to the current and warmer period 1991 to 2020, the deviation is 3.1 degrees.
More typically May than October
The highest temperatures this month were on October 28th with a summery 28.7 degrees in Müllheim near Freiburg. Karlshagen, east of Greifswald, reported the lowest October value on October 20 with minus 2.3 degrees.
The temperatures would have corresponded more to the “typical May in this country”, explained DWD spokesman Uwe Kirsche. It is “another look at our climate future”.
In Germany, temperatures and precipitation have been continuously recorded since 1881.