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Kiel / Offenbach (dpa / lno) - According to a report by the German Weather Service (DWD), it was above average warm and dry in Schleswig-Holstein in 2020.
In the northernmost federal state, the mean temperature this year was around 10.5 degrees Celsius, more than two degrees higher than the long-term mean of the internationally valid reference period from 1961 to 1990, as the weather service in Offenbach announced on Wednesday.
Compared to the long-term average, it also rained less this year.
According to the DWD, this year was the second warmest in Germany since records began.
«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 DWD Climate Director Tobias Fuchs.
Accordingly, the very sunny 2020 was the third dry year in a row.
Link to the DWD press release