Berlin-SANA
The German weather service announced that the city of Reinau, in the south of the country, recorded its highest temperature in 140 years today.
"Today is the warmest day of this month that the country has seen since the beginning of regular weather registration in 1881, that is, 140 years ago," the German news agency DPA quoted the authority as saying in a statement.
The authority wrote, through its official account on Twitter, that the temperature that was recorded in the suburb of Membrshsofen in the city of Rheinau at the top of the Rhine River reached 27.2 degrees, exceeding the record temperature of 26.6 degrees that was recorded on March 28, 1889.