It was more than 30 degrees – at the beginning of April. On Saturday, a nationwide heat record was measured in Germany for the first ten days of the month. And the DWD also expects “exceptionally warm air” in the coming days.
Unusually high temperatures were recorded in Germany at the beginning of April. According to preliminary figures from Saturday evening, there was a nationwide heat record for the first ten days of April since weather records began.
In Ohlsbach in the Rhine Valley, 30.1 degrees were measured, as the German Weather Service announced. So far, the record for the monthly decade (April 1st to April 11th) was 27.7 degrees, measured in 2011. “Large parts of the measuring stations today had new highs for the first decade in April, especially in the central and southern federal states.” said the speaker.
Provisional number
The 30.1 degrees is a provisional number. The data will be checked again in the coming days. However, the brief flare-up of midsummer in April is nothing unique: the current monthly high was registered on April 28, 2012: it was 32.9 degrees that day in Bad Mergentheim (Baden-Württemberg) and Kitzingen (Bavaria). And between 2009 and 2022, according to the DWD, there was always at least one day in April with more than 25 degrees in Germany.
In the south up to 31 degrees
According to the DWD, Germany will continue to experience “exceptionally warm air” in the coming days. 18 to 29 degrees are possible, in the south it could even reach 31 degrees locally. On Monday it will continue like this in many parts: a maximum of 24 to 29 degrees is expected, in the northwest half 15 to 23 degrees.
According to the DWD, various factors play a role in the current weather situation: an Atlantic that is too warm, coupled with a current from the southwest, which is further intensified by a hurricane low west of Ireland.
Added to this is the expected sunny weather. The extreme temperatures cannot therefore be explained solely by climate change, explained the head of the DWD regional advisory service in Munich, Guido-Peter Wolz.