The exceptional heatwave in the second half of June in Germany and across large parts of Europe has made meteorological history.<\/p>\n
The heatwave set new statistical records, with all-time or monthly maximum temperature records set at 467 out of 488 stations, the German Weather Service (DWD) said on Monday<\/p>\n
In addition, 339 records were set for the highest daily minimum temperature, DWD said. More than half of stations with records going back at least 40 years set a record for the daily maximum temperature.<\/p>\n
In Germany, the heatwave lasted from June 18 to 28. During this period, the 40-degree mark was exceeded on several occasions. According to the DWD, the German figures have now been definitively verified by meteorological standards.<\/p>\n
The heatwave in Germany reached its peak over the weekend of June 26 to 28, with historically high temperatures recorded across the country.<\/p>\n
A new German temperature record was set on two consecutive days: 41.3 degrees Celsius in Saarbr\u00fccken-Burbach on June 26 and 41.8 degrees Celsius in M\u00f6ckern-Drewitz on June 27. The previous record of 41.2 degrees – set in Duisburg-Baerl and T\u00f6nisvorst on July 25, 2019 – was thus surpassed by an “impressive” 0.6 degrees.<\/p>\n
The DWD said a total of 54 weather stations reached or exceeded the 40-degree mark at least once during the heatwave weekend – accompanied by tropical nights and extremely high daily averages.<\/p>\n
The report says the heat was fuelled by hot air from North Africa, strong solar radiation and unusually warm Mediterranean Sea surfaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The exceptional heatwave in the second half of June in Germany and across large parts of Europe has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[37847,5,26284,43188,43187,43186],"class_list":["post-53878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-german-weather-service","tag-germany","tag-heatwave","tag-meteorological-history","tag-statistical-records","tag-temperature-records-set"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}