Weather topic: First hot day | tagesschau.de

Status: 08.06.2023 11:37 a.m

On June 8th, the 30 degree mark will be reached for the first time this year. Is it early, normal or rather late? We take a look at the statistics.

In meteorology, one speaks of a hot day (or hot day) when an air temperature of 30 degrees or more occurs at some point. Our figure shows for the past 78 years on which date at least one weather station of the German weather service in the respective year cracked the 30 degree mark for the first time.

In most years, the first hot day was recorded in May, as the corresponding accumulation of points in this period suggests. In some years, April brought values ​​of 30 degrees or more, in some years this lasted until the beginning or middle of July. This year we are in the last third of the time scale with June 8th, which is relatively late.

Incidentally, in the 78 years under consideration, the absolute earliest hot day was recorded on April 15, 2007 in Herten in the Ruhr area, and the latest on July 12, 1974 in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance. Baden-Württemberg was able to contribute the first hot day in a total of 27 years and is thus in first place. Followed by North Rhine-Westphalia at 11 and Saxony, Brandenburg/Berlin and Rhineland-Palatinate at 7 years each. From a regional point of view, the first hot days were observed most frequently in the south-west of the republic, accounting for almost half of all years. The east of the country accounts for a good quarter.

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