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Offenbach / Essen (dpa / lnw) - New heat leaders in Germany: Tönisvorst near Krefeld and Duisburg are now record holders in terms of maximum temperature.

The German Weather Service (DWD) registered a value of 41.2 degrees at both locations on July 25, 2019.

The previous record holder was the DWD station in Lingen im Emsland, where an even higher 42.6 degrees were measured on the same day.

However, on Thursday the DWD announced that this value had been canceled.

The reason: Investigations had shown that temperatures at the station's measurement field had repeatedly occurred since 2017 that were not representative of the region.

Responsible for this is the significantly increased vegetation in the immediate eastern vicinity of the station, the DWD in Offenbach said.

The vegetation always hinders the exchange of air with wind directions from northeast to southeast.

Even then, the measured value was viewed very critically.

Summer 2019 was the third warmest nationwide and also in North Rhine-Westphalia since weather records began in 1881, as the deputy head of the DWD's regional climate office in Essen, Thomas Kesseler-Lauterkorn, explained.

The average value, the so-called summer mean temperature, was 19.1 degrees in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2019 - after 19.5 in 2003 and 19.3 in 2018. Summer 2020 was not quite as hot, but it comes with 18.3 Grad is still in seventh place on the record list.

For comparison: The summer mean temperature in the years 1961 to 1990 was 16.3 degrees in NRW.

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In those hot July days in Tönisvorst, for the first time since the temperature records began, it was at least 40 degrees on three days in a row, the DWD said at the time.

Before 2019, the 40-degree temperature mark had only been reached ten times in Germany.

On July 25th, 40 degrees and more were reached nationwide at more than 20 stations, in NRW alone at 13 locations.

The highest temperature in summer 2020 was measured in NRW on August 8 in Weilerswist at 37.5 degrees.

Nationwide, the peak value was 38.9 degrees, measured on August 9 in Trier.

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