As of: March 1, 2024, 1:29 p.m
By: Felix Herz
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Bavaria is experiencing its warmest winter since records began.
With an average of 3.3 degrees Celsius, winter in the Free State exceeds the previous record from 2007.
Munich - Last winter in Bavaria set a new heat record, with an average of 3.3 degrees Celsius, it was even milder than the previous record holder from 2007. Despite these high temperatures, Bavaria remained the coolest region in Germany, according to the German Weather Service (DWD ) in Offenbach on Wednesday.
February in particular was unusually warm with an average of 6.3 degrees and was more reminiscent of April.
This continues a sad trend.
The year 2023 already saw many of the warmest months in around 140 years - for example September.
No wonder that last autumn was the warmest since weather records began.
The four seasons in Germany are changing due to climate change.
Summers are becoming hotter, winters are milder, and the weather is generally becoming more extreme.
(Symbolic image) © Heinz Gebhardt / IMAGO
Records at the federal level are also falling - Rosenheim with highest temperatures across Germany
Nationwide, this is the 13th mild winter in a row and the third warmest since records began in 1881. In Bavaria, the average temperature of 3.3 degrees was well above the international reference average of minus 1.0 degrees for the period from 1961 up to 1990, which is used to assess climate change.
On February 16th, the Upper Bavarian city of Rosenheim recorded the highest winter temperature in all of Germany at 18.8 degrees.
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Humid, mild and sunny – the winter of 2023/2024 in Bavaria
Winter conditions prevailed in Bavaria mainly in early December and mid-January.
The lowest temperature was recorded on January 20th in Oberstdorf with an icy minus 19.2 degrees.
In addition, the winter in Bavaria was wet above average, with 265 liters of precipitation per square meter on average, compared to 200 liters in the reference period.
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Nevertheless, Bavaria, as the second sunniest federal state, was able to record around 200 hours of sunshine this winter, compared to 171 hours in the reference period.
Peak values of over 250 hours of sunshine were even recorded in the foothills of the Alps, as the DWD reported after initial evaluations of the data from its approximately 2,000 measuring stations.
All calculations used forecasts for the last two days of February, so final values may vary slightly.
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