Stuttgart / Offenbach (dpa / lsw) – It doesn’t really want to be summery in Baden-Württemberg – and it hasn’t really been summer in the past few weeks. Less sun and more rain than usual add up at the end of the month. According to their statistics published on Monday, Baden-Württemberg was the second coolest federal state at 16 degrees last month, and almost 100 liters of precipitation fell per square meter. Only in Bavaria did it rain more in June.
The sun showed up for a total of around 190 hours – the Southwest, together with Thuringia and Bavaria, is at the end of the sun charts, as the German Weather Service (DWD) announced. And for comparison: in May the sunshine lasted almost 240 hours, and April 2020 was even the sunniest since recording started with more than 300 hours.
June was also moody across Germany. A bit of sun at the start, then windy, wet and sometimes even with snow on the mountains. “After stabilization with high summer temperatures, June ended with a windy end,” said the DWD after evaluating its approximately 2,000 weather stations.
Overall, the month was a bit too warm, but it presented itself with typical Central European summer weather. On average, it was 16.8 degrees, 1.4 degrees warmer than the average of the internationally valid reference period 1961 to 1990. The lowest value was transmitted on June 1 by the Oberharz station at Brocken with 0.5 degrees, the highest in Germany Daily maximum of 34 degrees was measured on the 13th in Coschen south of Eisenhüttenstadt (Brandenburg).
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