Offenbach (dpa) – The German Weather Service (DWD) has subsequently corrected its heat record value for this year: The highest temperature so far was measured on Wednesday in Hamburg and not in Baden-Württemberg as initially reported. The nationwide highest value in 2022 was 40.1 degrees at the Hamburg-Neuwiedenthal measuring point, as the DWD announced on Thursday evening. An initially reported provisional maximum value of 40.3 degrees from Bad Mergentheim was not confirmed.
The measurement on Wednesday was correct there. “However, an immediate examination of the site showed that the temperature data from the measuring field are only representative of a very local environment due to neighboring buildings and the vegetation in the immediate vicinity in low-wind weather conditions, as in the past few days,” the DWD explained on Thursday.
The DWD had already emphasized on Wednesday that the values still had to be checked. On the DWD list of the hottest places on July 20th, Hamburg-Neuwiedenthal is followed by Barsinghausen-Hohenbostel (Lower Saxony) and Huy-Pabstorf (Saxony-Anhalt), each with 40.0 degrees. A total of more than 40 degrees were measured in three places on Wednesday. The German record is 41.2 degrees, measured on July 25, 2019 at two stations in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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