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Leipzig (dpa) - The people in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia can look back on the coldest April in decades.
Saxony in particular experienced record-breaking temperatures with an average of 5.3 degrees, as a spokesman for the German Weather Service (DWD) announced on Thursday.
The average April temperatures were last colder here in 1973 - almost half a century ago.
With 145 hours of sunshine this month, Saxony was also the country with the least sunshine in a nationwide comparison.
But similarly cold temperatures were also a long time ago in the other federal states: Saxony-Anhalt experienced the coldest April since 1977 with 6 degrees and most frost days since the measurements began.
In Thuringia, the average temperature was 5.1 degrees - you would have to travel back to 1980 to experience a similarly cold April.
In all three federal states, the average temperatures in April are sometimes several degrees below the value of the internationally valid reference period from 1961 to 1990. Despite the currently cold temperatures, according to the DWD, the climate continues to warm: “Even in times of global warming, it is clearly too cool month seldom, but always possible.
This April will not change the trend, ”said a press spokesman for the DWD.
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