According to preliminary information, the highest temperature values ​​since weather records began were measured in several federal states on Wednesday.

According to the German Weather Service (DWD), Wednesday was also the hottest day of 2022 so far and one of the hottest ever.

More than 40 degrees were measured at three DWD stations.

The highest value was reached with 40.1 degrees in Hamburg-Neuwiedenthal, the DWD reported on Thursday evening and thus corrected its annual record value of 40.3 degrees in Bad Mergentheim (Baden-Württemberg) on ​​Wednesday.

The measurement on Wednesday was correct there.

"However, an immediate examination of the site revealed that the temperature data from the measuring field are only representative of a very local environment due to neighboring buildings and the vegetation in the immediate vicinity in low-wind weather conditions, as in the past few days," the DWD explained on Thursday.

The temperature in Hamburg is still a long way from the maximum value: on July 25, 2019, 41.2 degrees were measured in NRW.

In addition, 40.0 degrees were measured in Barsinghausen-Hohenbostel (Lower Saxony record) and Huy-Pabstorf (Saxony-Anhalt record) on Wednesday.

In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, a state record of 39.4 degrees was measured in Boizenburg and in Schleswig-Holstein, a state record of 39.1 degrees in Grambek.

This is also the tenth time that temperatures of more than 40 degrees have been measured in one day in Germany since records began – the last time this was on July 25, 2019.

At that time, however, this was not only the case at four stations, but at 22 DWD stations.

July 25, 2019 also remains the nationwide heat record day: According to the DWD, 41.2 degrees Celsius were measured at the North Rhine-Westphalian stations in Duisburg and Tönisvorst on the Lower Rhine near Krefeld.

DWD spokesman Andreas Friedrich said in an interview with the German Press Agency that the values ​​​​are provisional, but will not be updated that evening.

They will be checked in the coming days and, if necessary, will be specified after a few days.