After technology theft: Weather service is looking for a new place for a measuring station in Berlin – Berlin

“Outsiders – front runners” is the name of an entertainment program that was started on GDR television in 1972 and has survived on MDR to this day. The title would also have fit the weather station on the Kaniswall in Müggelheim, which however turned out to be much more short-lived: Inaugurated in May 1996 by the German Weather Service (DWD), declared dead in December 2020.

So there will be no more new record reports from the measuring devices at the foot of that wooded hill in the middle of the otherwise completely flat Gosener meadows. They belong to Berlin’s largest nature reserve and offer favorable conditions for extreme values ​​- if only because of the location, because even a few kilometers additional distance from the Atlantic Ocean and closer proximity to the Eurasian continent can be felt: On August 7, 2015, the Kaniswall with 38.9 Degree the highest temperature recorded in Berlin to date.

And early in the morning it is often several degrees colder in the meadows, far away from the larger buildings, than in urban areas – especially with an easterly wind, which can bring cold records in winter.

After almost all of the technology was stolen in a break-in at the end of 2018, the DWD renewed the station in the vicinity of the Kaniswall open-air laboratory by the beginning of 2020. But after the next incident of this kind this summer, he decided to surrender – and is looking for a new location .

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So if you can spare eight and a half by six meters of lawn in a suitable location, please yourself report to the DWD. The air temperature above the ground and at a height of two meters, humidity and precipitation are to be measured. If you are lucky, you may soon be able to report records from your own clod.

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