Cover from 02.10.2024
Development of Germany’s climate - 2023 Monitoring Report
… with 2016 being regarded globally as the warmest year so far, and the years from 2014 to 2022 were, in global terms, the nine warmest years since systematic records … annual mean temperature greater than 10 °C had never occurred in Germany prior to 2014. Since that year, a total of five years passed in which such high values … of heavy-rain events stand out from the time series. In the years of 2002, 2006, 2014 and 2021 more than 1,500 heavy-rain events occurred. In 2018 the value amounted …