Many weather models had warned us about this winter. And the forecasts for spring 2020 do not bode well either.
- The balance for the winter 2019/2020 is terrifying - a total failure.
- Forecasts for spring 2020 show a shocking weather trend.
- Weather experts are alarmed.
Munich - The weather in Germany has hardly been boring in the past few months. Hurricane gusts, sleet and black ice - then T-shirt weather again. The first storm lows swept across the country in February and caused chaos. The whole thing was hardly so consistently wintry, although in some parts of Germany heavy snow fell from time to time and it was quite frosty at night.
Weather trend 2020: spring forecast - is now a March winter coming?
To date , February in Germany is 4.2 degrees warmer than the long-term climate mean of the years 1961 to 1990, reports certified meteorologist Dominik Jung from the Q.met weather service to the weather portal wetter.net. No surprise, actually. Already in summer 2019, the US weather service NOAA (American Weather and Ocean Authority) had announced a lot of rain and mild temperatures for the winter 2019/20. In this case, the weather forecasts were confirmed despite such a long lead time. Jung believes that long-term weather forecasts are getting better and better.
And February 2020 stays warm. According to the meteorologist Jung, the month should be 3 to 4 degrees too warm in Germany, and even 5 degrees too warm in Northern and Eastern Europe. Winter 2020 was a total failure.
Weather expert Jörg Kachelmann is currently less concerned about the warm temperatures but is annoyed by a posting by Steffen Seibert. The government spokesman speaks about the air quality in cities - and brings Kachelmann to the palm with a statement.
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Weather in Germany - this is how spring 2020 will be
- Meteorological spring 2020 is on March 1st. Weather experts always divide the four seasons into three full months. Spring includes March , April and May . This makes it easier to compare data.
- Calendar (astronomical) spring beginning 2020 is on March 20th. This is determined by the position of the sun. This is when the sun is vertical over the equator. Day and night are the same length on this day.
Those who still hoped for snow * in March must now be very brave or drive high into the mountains. It doesn't look like winter at all. In spring 2020, it should also be significantly warmer. The first forecasts for March, April and May are now condensing.
"Overall, the weather trends see a very warm spring coming," says weather expert Dominik Jung. “It wouldn't be surprising if we hit the 25 degree summer mark for the first time in March. Will the 30-degree mark even fall in April ? ”There are many signs of extreme weather for summer 2020 *.
We have to wait and see whether this actually happens. The weather experts pay particular attention to one factor: precipitation *. Will another drought summer begin? January 2020 was too dry, but in some parts of Germany it rained heavily in early February.
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* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
