Autumn and the year that is almost over continue to set temperature records.
As the German Weather Service (DWD) reported on Wednesday after the first evaluation of the results of its around 2000 measuring stations, autumn 2022 was the third warmest in Germany since nationwide measurements began in 1881.
But a second assessment - for a meteorologically unusual period - is also possible: "Never since 1881 has the period from January to November been as warm in Germany as it was in 2022," said DWD spokesman Uwe Kirsche in Offenbach.
The average is 11.3 degrees Celsius.
The previous high was in 2020 with 11.1 degrees for this period.
At 10.8 degrees, the mean temperature for autumn alone was 2.0 degrees above the value for the internationally valid reference period from 1961 to 1990. Compared to the current and warmer reference period from 1991 to 2020, the deviation was 1.5 degrees.