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Monthly balance: October brought plenty of sun
Marienburg Castle in the Hanover region in the sunlight. Photo: Julian Stratenschulte / dpa
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A stable high-pressure weather situation made it possible: The sun clearly exceeded its target in Germany in October.
October was above average sunny, a little too warm and too dry. The German Weather Service (DWD) drew this balance on Friday after the first evaluations of the results of its around 2000 measuring stations.
“Compared to the wet and unstable month of the previous year, calm high-pressure weather conditions dominated in October 2021,” reported the meteorologists.
The average temperature in October 2021 was 9.6 degrees, 0.6 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 was 0.2 degrees. On the day of German reunification, a summer day was even reached: In Munich, the mercury climbed to 27.5 degrees at that time.
At 130 hours, the sunshine duration exceeded its October target of 109 hours (period 1961 to 1990) by around 20 percent. Compared to 1991 to 2020, the positive deviation was also 20 percent.
In October there was around 45 liters per square meter and thus almost 20 percent less precipitation than the average for the reference period 1961 to 1990. Compared to the period 1991 to 2020, the decrease was almost 30 percent. In contrast to the previous months, the North Sea was the wettest.