A first trend for the weather in winter in Germany is there. Friends of snow and ice can look forward to it.
Offenbach – How is the weather * in winter * in Germany? Friends of snow * and ice have gotten pretty short in the past few years. For the last ten years in a row, winters in Germany have always been too warm. But how will it be this time? An expert has good news for winter lovers.
Skiing in Germany, building a snowman with the children or sledding on the meadow in the neighborhood: those who love winter have mostly been disappointed in recent years. The weather was often wet and cold in autumn or even too warm with temperatures of up to 20 degrees Celsius *.
Weather in Germany: This is how winter is published – first trend
One example was last winter: even if it was temporarily quite cold with a cold phase and rumors about a century of winter through La Niña, it turned out to be too warm overall. The winter of 2020/21 was on average 1.83 degrees Celsius too warm and 1.6 degrees above the climate mean. It was similar in previous years.
But how will the weather in Germany be in the coming winter? The US weather service NOAA has published an initial trend. “These monthly and annual trends can only try to estimate whether the season is too warm or too cold, too dry or too wet,” says graduate meteorologist Dominik Jung *, managing director of the weather service Q.met, to the weather portal wetter.net. Still, these initial trends were often right.
Weather in Germany: First forecast with good news for winter friends
The first trend of the American weather model for the coming winter should please fans of snow and cold. The months of December, January and February are in the range of the long-term climate mean for the first time in years. “For the first time in years it looks like an average winter. Most people will find it too warm, ”explains Jung. The last time there was an average winter in Germany was in the winter of 2012/13, when the average temperature was 0.3 degrees Celsius, which corresponds to a deviation of 0.1 degrees.
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It looks similar when it rains: The weather in winter in Germany should neither be too wet nor too dry, but rather average according to the current forecast *. So the chances of snow and maybe even a white Christmas are not that bad. (Christian Weihrauch) * op-online.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
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