Climate Changed
Germany Sweltered Through Third-Warmest Year on Record in 2019
- June was hottest, sunniest since regular measurements began
- Temperature hit record 42.6 Celsius in Lingen in late July
People swim in a lake in Hanover, Germany on July 25, 2019.
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Germany had the third-warmest year on record this year, including the hottest and sunniest June since regular measurements began in 1881, according to the nation’s Deutscher Wetterdienst weather service.
The average temperature in 2019 was 10.2 Celsius (50.4 Fahrenheit), 1.3 degrees above the average between 1981 and 2010 and the third warmest after 2018 (10.5 Celsius) and 2014 (10.3 Celsius), according to the DWD‘s preliminary assessment of data from its 2,000 weather stations.