Another temperature record has been set in Germany during the night leading into Sunday. According to preliminary data released by the German Weather Service (DWD) this morning, the minimum temperature in Kubschütz, located in the district of Bautzen in East Saxony, did not drop below 29.4 degrees Celsius. This marks a new national record for the nighttime minimum temperature since the records began being kept. The previous record, set on the night of August 13, 2003, at Weinbiet in Rhineland-Palatinate, was 27.2 degrees.
In recent days, maximum temperature records have also been broken. For instance, at the Möckern-Drewitz weather station in Saxony-Anhalt, 41.5 degrees was measured on Saturday afternoon around 4:20 PM. Shortly before that, Saarbrücken-Burbach in the Saarland registered 41.4 degrees, surpassing the 41.3 degrees recorded at the same location the day before. Until now, the recognized German heat records stood at 41.2 degrees, measured both in Duisburg-Baerl and Tönisvorst on July 25, 2019, a record that had stood for nearly seven years.
On Sunday, the 30-degree Celsius mark was already surpassed at the first stations around 8 AM. The DWD predicts that the 40-degree mark will likely be broken again, particularly in the eastern regions, resulting in widespread strong, and often extreme, heat stress. Additionally, there are forecasts for heavy thunderstorms, which should provide some cooling relief as the week begins.
