The German municipality of Kubschütz, located in eastern Germany, recorded a temperature of 29.4 degreesthe highest value in history in Germany during the night hours, the German Meteorological Service (DWD) confirmed to EFE. “We have never before had such a high minimum during the night in Germany,” said a DWD spokesperson, where they pointed out that the pertinent checks still need to be carried out to make that Kubschütz temperature official.
The day before, the DWD registered a historical temperature recordwhen 41.5 degrees were measured in Drewitz, a district of the municipality of Möckern, in the eastern federal state of Saxony Anhalt. This measurement surpassed that recorded on Friday in Saarbrücken, where, by reaching 41.3 degrees, the record set on July 25, 2019 in the towns of Tönisvorst and Duisburg, in western Germany, had been broken and where the thermometers marked 41.2 degrees that day.
Germany is experiencing a heat wave in which, this Sunday, “the extreme heat will concentrate in the east“, although “in the rest of the country there will also be high temperatures, in some cases extreme, due, among other things, to the lack of cooling at night and the high humidity of the air,” according to the DWD. “In almost the entire country there will continue to be a strong or extreme thermal sensation,” indicated the German meteorological service in its forecast for this Sunday. In addition to the heat, there are forecasts of strong storms in the north during the day and, in the last hours of the day, in the west and southwest of the Central European country.
