meter-high snow, avalanches, and from the outside world cut off villages: the weather reports that dominated the Winter. The winter months offer a lot of other records, especially the February.
In Bavaria, piled up in masses of Snow, week long dominated avalanche danger and snow load on the roofs of the headlines – and yet The ending was Winter in Germany, above-average warm and Sunny. For the months of December, January and February, the nationwide average temperature was 2.8 degrees, such as the German weather service (DWD) announced in Offenbach. This is 2.6 degrees more than the average value of the official reference period of 1961 to 1990.
Also, compared with the average for the reference period of 1981 to 2010, this year’s average value of 1.9 degrees warmer. “Thus the Winter of 2018/19 ended up with among the warmest since the beginning of regular measurements in the year 1881,” the meteorologists. In the section of 200 hours, the sun was shining this Winter, according to the experts. These are about 29 percent more sunshine than usual in the long-term average.
