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From dpa
Sat, 01 January 2022 at 19:46
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New Year’s Eve in the southwest was exceptionally mild. It was warmest in Germany in Freiburg. There the temperatures almost reached the national record of 1961.
New Year’s Eve set new temperature records in many places in the southwest. At the national high temperature on New Year’s Eve, a new record in Baden-Württemberg was just missed, as the German Weather Service (DWD) announced on Saturday.
It was warmest on December 31, 2021 in Freiburg with 16.9 degrees Celsius. A higher temperature had previously only been measured in Müllheim in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district – also across Germany: 17.0 degrees on New Year’s Eve 1961. There, too, the temperature remained below the highest level at that time, at 16.6 degrees.
Nevertheless, the last day of the year was very mild in many places and caused temperature records in dozen of cities in the southwest. At the measuring station in Stuttgart-Echterdingen, for example, the DWD recorded a maximum temperature of 14.6 degrees. That was well above the record high of 13.9 degrees in 2017 – a year in which numerous new records were also set in the country. Second and third place in the warmest places on New Year’s Eve go to the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district with Buchenbach (16.0 degrees) and Lenzkirch-Ruhbühl (15.7 degrees).
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