That’s how winter went in Berlin
In a nationwide comparison, there was relatively little precipitation and sunshine in Berlin in winter 2021/22. While the nationwide average was 200 liters per square meter, the German Weather Service (DWD) in December 2021 and January and February 2022 in Berlin only around 135 liters per square meter, as the DWD announced on Monday in its preliminary winter balance sheet.
The average temperature in Berlin was 3.6 degrees. In the reference period between 1961 and 1990, this value was significantly lower at 0.5 degrees. The comparison enables an assessment of the long-term change, it said. In addition, with around 135 hours of sunshine in winter 2021/22, Berlin is the area with the second fewest hours of sunshine after Hamburg.
Nationwide, the average temperature in winter 2021/22 was 3.3 degrees, 3.1 degrees above the value of the applicable international reference period from 1961 to 1990. Compared to the current and warmer period from 1991 to 2020, the deviation was plus 1.9 degrees it. “This means that the winter of 2021/22 is one of the seven warmest since the start of continuous weather recording in 1881 and is also the eleventh winter that was too warm in a row,” according to the DWD.