"You can certainly enjoy a sunny day," says Andreas Friedrich, meteorologist from the German Weather Service, about the record.
But, according to Friedrich, what makes this year's scenario "the intensity and the long persistence of this weather" is threatening.
There has been too little precipitation since spring, and agriculture is suffering from the drought.
The hot days don't appear to be a random outlier to the upside, either.
Friedrich sees in his weather data that in the last millennium temperatures of over 40 degrees were still events of the century.
"Now it seems every two or three years."
Since 2003, the record summers have been piling up.
For Friedrich, this is a clear sign »that we are already living in the midst of global warming – and are also feeling it severely«.
He expects summers to become warmer on average in the future.
In one year or another, the temperatures could well seem more normal again.
But for the meteorologist Friedrich, the trend is clear: "It's getting warmer.
And in the next twenty to thirty years we will probably have to make summers like 2022 the norm.« The weather may be sunny, but the climate crisis is not.
Nevertheless, remain confident.
Heartfelt
Yours, Kerstin Kullmann
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