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From sweaty hot to bitterly cold – the lowest and highest temperatures in Germany were recorded in Bavaria.
Munich - The fact that the lowest temperature ever measured in Germany comes from Bavaria will hardly surprise anyone - the Free State is home to the Alps, which are known to be rather cold. But the highest temperature in Germany was also recorded in Bavaria. The Free State – a federal state of (weather) extremes.
Cold, colder, Funtensee – the lowest temperature was recorded here
To get to the lowest temperature ever recorded in Germany, you have to go back a few years. On December 24, 2001, the previous cold record was set at the Meteomedia station at Funtensee in Berchtesgadener Land: -45.9 degrees. The DWD station at Funtensee registered -45.8 degrees on the same day.
The lowest and highest temperatures ever recorded in Germany were set in Bavaria. © Ulrich Wagner / Heinz Gebhardt / IMAGO / Merkur collage
For third place in the coldest temperatures ever recorded in Germany, you can stay in Bavaria, but you have to travel far back in time. 95 years to be exact. The measuring station at Hüll near Pfaffenhofen, Upper Bavaria, recorded -37.8 degrees on February 12, 1929.
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Sweaty heat in the summer of 2015 – a record here in Bavaria too
From one extreme to the next: The highest temperature ever recorded in Germany was also recorded in the Free State - and it was a summery double whammy. On July 5th and August 7th 2015, 40.3 degrees were measured in Kitzingen. This is followed by Gärmersdorf near Amberg (July 27, 1983), Karlsruhe (August 9, 2003 and August 13) and Freiburg (August 13) with 40.2 degrees.
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Incidentally, the highest recorded temperature in the world was in August 1923 in El Asisija, Libya, writes
wetter-eggerszell.de
: 57.3 degrees. The lowest temperature in the world was recorded in Russia: -89.2 degrees on July 21, 1983 at the Russian Antarctic station Vostock.
(fhz)
More German weather records from Bavaria
Maximum daily rainfall
: 260 millimeters on July 6, 1954 in Stein, Rosenheim district
Largest amount of precipitation in eight minutes
: 126 millimeters on May 25, 1920 in Füssen, Allgäu
Highest wind speed
: 335 km/h
on June 12, 1985 on the Zugspitze
Maximum annual rainfall
: 3499 millimeters
in 1944 in Purtschellerhaus, Berchtesgaden
Highest snow cover
: 8.3 meters on April 2, 1944 Zugspitze (Schneefernerhaus)
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