Historical temperature increase of more than 40 degrees measured in a week

Offenbach. First bitter frost, then sunshine and mild spring weather: within a few days the weather in Germany set a record. This is calculated by the climate researchers of the German Weather Service. The temperature has never risen as much as the measurements now confirmed by the Göttingen weather station. While a low of minus 23.8 degrees was measured there on February 14th, it was high on February 21 at 18.1 degrees - an increase of 41.9 degrees.

In order to find something almost comparable, the weather researchers had to travel to the past: the previous record was set up in May 1880, i.e. in the early days of the weather records. At this point, a temperature increase of 41 degrees was measured within seven days, said a spokesman for the DWD.

in northern Germany, according to the information on Monday, two regional heat records were also measured in winter: in Quickborn in Schleswig-Holstein, the maximum value was 18.9 degrees and thus above the record value of 17.8 degrees that was measured two years earlier.

in Hamburg were even measured 21.1 degrees at the Neuwiedenthal weather station on Monday. The previous record of the same station of 18.1 degrees at the same station a good year earlier was "pulverized" according to a DWD spokesman. "The temperature in Hamburg has increased over 20 degrees in winter in winter."