Press release 27/2016 from 12.09.2016 | Last changed: 23.01.2017
Global record temperatures and flash floods in Germany – small taste of the summer of the future?
… temperatures have jumped to new highs: it has been the hottest summer worldwide and may well be the hottest on record since 1880. The numerous droughts and flooding … had relatively little to do with El Niño. Summer 2016 in Germany and Central Europe may have been only slightly warmer compared to the international reference period …