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Hanover / Bremen (dpa / lni) - In a nationwide very sunny year 2020, Lower Saxony was not exactly spoiled.
With a good 1771 hours of sunshine, it was the federal state with the least amount of sunshine, as the German Weather Service (DWD) announced after initial evaluations in Offenbach on Wednesday.
According to the DWD data, Bremen was at least the second warmest region with an average temperature of 11.2 degrees.
According to the meteorologists, the two federal states experienced the wettest February in 2020 and the second warmest winter overall since the data was recorded.
The weather experts highlighted two days in their preliminary assessment.
On April 18, drought favored a moor fire near Papenburg in Emsland, which set about 32 hectares on fire.
On June 14th, heavy rainfall caused weather-related accidents and flooding.
In Damme in the Vechta district, numerous shops and a hospital were affected.
Nationwide, according to preliminary results, 2020 was the second warmest since records began.
The average temperature was 10.4 degrees.
So 2020 is just behind the record year 2018, in which the mean temperature was 10.5 degrees.
In August there were maximum values of over 30 degrees on 8 days for the first time in Bremerhaven.
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It is the tenth year in a row that the average temperature has exceeded the long-term mean.
«The very warm year 2020 must not leave us indifferent.
The scientific climate facts of the national weather service are alarming.
Climate protection is the order of the day.
We have to act now, ”said Tobias Fuchs, DWD's climate director.
DWD press release