"Heat 2.0" is rolling towards Germany - extreme temperatures again at the weekend
Created: 07/21/2022, 14:02
By: Kai Hartwig
The heat wave in Germany, including record values in several federal states, has hardly calmed down when the next hot weather is imminent.
Munich – The heat wave currently has Europe firmly in its grip.
In many countries, temperatures rose well above 30 degrees, numerous forest fires raged in many countries.
Germany was also groaning under the summer heat these days.
In some cases, the thermometer even rose above the 40-degree mark.
The weather is hotter than ever before.
Weather in Germany: Six federal states set heat records
According to the German Weather Service (DWD), on Wednesday (July 20) the highest values since weather records began were reached in six federal states.
According to the DWD, Baden-Württemberg set a new heat record for the state.
In Bad Mergentheim-Neunkirchen, the thermometer showed 40.3 degrees, the previous nationwide record value for 2022 - and thus also cracked the almost 19-year-old record of 40.2 degrees.
This was achieved on August 13, 2003 in Freiburg.
A peak of 40.1 degrees was measured in Hamburg-Neuwiedenthal, also an all-time record for the Hanseatic city.
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With exactly 40 degrees, Barsinghausen-Hohenbostel (Lower Saxony) and Huy-Pabstorf (Saxony-Anhalt) also set new heat records for their state, as did Boizenburg (39.4/Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) and Grambek (39.1/Schleswig-Holstein) .
With Duisburg-Baerl and Tönisvorst, two places in North Rhine-Westphalia have held the weather record for Germany since July 25, 2019, which recorded 41.2 degrees at the time.
Weather: It stays hot - heat returns in Germany at the weekend
But Thursday (July 21) brought a lot of cooling.
Temperatures dropped well below 30 degrees in many places.
In Bavaria and parts of NRW as well as in the extreme north, there was even some precipitation in the form of rain.
But the next heat wave is probably already upon us at the weekend.
"Then the heat 2.0 will come," announced meteorologist Dominik Jung at
Wetter.net
: "It will be very hot again from southwestern Europe."
By Sunday (July 24) at the latest, values well above 30 degrees will be reached again in large parts of Germany, according to the DWD forecast, especially in the center and south of the Federal Republic.
Temperatures then continue to rise.
As early as Monday (July 25), the midsummer weather will probably be scratching the 40-degree mark again, said meteorologist Jung.
It will be particularly hot with "up to 39 degrees on the Upper Rhine", as well as 35 to 38 degrees in the eastern German states.
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And Jung added that it is likely to remain hot and dry in August.
"The summer of 2022 seems to want to be one of the warmest since 1881, in Europe and also in Germany," the weather expert speculated.
It remains to be seen whether the German weather record of 41.2 degrees will be broken in the summer of 2022.
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