OFFENBACH – A little cooler, but still not very wintry, the new year in Hesse begins. After record temperatures were reached in many places on New Year’s Eve, it will be mild with clouds and rain on this Sunday, according to the forecast of the German Weather Service (DWD), between ten and twelve degrees. In addition, there is wind, strong to stormy arcs sweep across the mountains.
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The new week begins similarly, as the DWD predicted on Saturday in Offenbach. Towards the middle of the week it will be even cooler. A sustained onset of winter is not in sight.
Local highs almost everywhere
On New Year’s Eve, the temperatures reached record highs in some regions, scarfs, gloves and hats could stay at home during the day. The DWD registered local maximum values in almost all stations evaluated in Hesse, only Frankfurt and the headquarters of the weather service itself, Offenbach, lagged behind the previous years.
The people in Eschwege (Werra-Meißner district) were able to enjoy the highest temperature recorded on that day in the state at 15.1 degrees, the previous maximum value at the station was 13.1 degrees, according to the DWD, measured on December 31, 2017. Schaafheim-Schlierbach in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district reached 14.4 degrees (previous maximum for this day 14.0 degrees), 14.3 degrees in Michelstadt in the Odenwald (12.8 degrees) and 14.2 degrees in Bad Hersfeld in the district Hersfeld-Rotenburg (12.4). Hesse’s highest mountain, among others, set a record: At 8 degrees, the previous high from 2016 of 6.7 degrees was exceeded on the Wasserkuppe.
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