Storms, heavy rain, thunderstorms and floods – in Germany, summer has so far tended to fall into the water. Heavy thunderstorms hit the country again on Monday evening. While the rain is troubling us here, heat records are broken in other European countries.
The portal “daswetter.com” reports that temperatures will rise in Austria. On Wednesday, the temperatures there should crack the 40 degree mark.- It should be hotter in Portugal and Spain than in Austria. There the meteorologists expect record heat. Because the weather models show an advance of Sahara air. In Portugal and Spain, the experts therefore reckon with up to 45 degrees. In parts of southern Spain, temperatures of over 50 degrees are expected. That value would be a sad record. Because the highest measured value so far is 48 degrees on 07/10/1977 in Greece.- The temperatures in Northern Europe are approaching new record values. The Finnish weather authorities reported 33.5 degrees for Sunday in Kevo, in the far north of the country. This is the highest recorded temperature in the region since 1914. June was the hottest month nationwide since weather records began in 1844. In neighboring Sweden, the capital Stockholm set the third heat record for June in a row.- In Norway, the Meteorological Institute recorded on Sunday in Saltdal, in a district near the Arctic Circle, the highest temperature recorded in the whole of the country this year at 34 degrees. That is 1.6 degrees less than the country’s absolute temperature record. In several places in Norway there have recently been “tropical nights” when the temperature did not drop below 20 degrees.-
Canada had already set a heat record last week, with temperatures of almost 50 degrees in the shade. According to a report released in May, global warming in the Arctic is currently three times faster than the rest of the planet. The increase is even faster than previously assumed and there is no end in sight.
According to the weather portal, Germany is largely spared. For the next 10 to 14 days, the meteorologists predict normal summer weather with occasional rain showers and temperatures around 25 degrees. In the west of the country it should be a little cooler, in the east a little hotter.
