On the side of the Netherlands, it was scientist Kees van der Leun who shared his dismay on Twitter. The temperature record was broken in the town of De Bilt near Utrecht on January 1. “Welcome to 2023. It took less than an hour to experience the hottest January temperature on record here: 15.6⁰C (60.1F), beating the previous 122-year record by 0.5 ⁰C (0.9F )!”wrote on the social network.
Excessive temperature also detected in Germany by the regional newspaper of Berlin Berliner Zeitung. In the night from 31 December to 1 January 2023, “the thermometer showed more than 17 degrees in some areas. It has never been so hot on New Year’s Eve in the capital”ensures the newspaper.
