According to data from the German Weather Service (DWD), the month that is coming to an end is the warmest or second-warmest October since records began. According to the current status, the meteorologists assume that the average temperature in Germany was 12.5 degrees, which corresponds to the previous record value from 2001. Since the evaluation is not yet complete, the old peak value could possibly be exceeded it on Monday.
“We experienced an October whose temperatures are more like May, which is typical in this country,” said Uwe Kirsche, DWD spokesman: “Another look at our climate future.”
At 12.5 degrees, this year’s October is 3.5 degrees above the value of the internationally valid reference period from 1961 to 1990. Compared to the warmer period from 1991 to 2020, the deviation is 3.1 degrees.
The highest temperatures this month were on October 28th with 28.7 degrees in Müllheim near Freiburg. Wielenbach, west of Lake Starnberg, and Munich experienced four days on which the maximum values were over 25 degrees. Old temperature records were exceeded at numerous stations.
At the same time, October was comparatively dry. At around 50 liters per square meter, ten percent less rain fell this month than the average for the reference period 1961-1990. Compared with the period 1991-2020, there was 20 percent less precipitation.
The sun shone about 30 percent more in October than in the two reference periods. About 140 hours of sunshine were counted. It was the sunniest in the greater Berlin area and central Brandenburg, where more than 175 hours of sunshine were recorded in some cases. In Germany, temperatures and precipitation have been continuously recorded since 1881.