The weather in Germany in January 2018 - Deutscher Wetterdienst

3.8 degrees Celsius on average – sixth warmest January in Germany since 1881
Offenbach, 30 January 2018 – January 2018 was much too warm with copious amounts of rain. It was less sunny than usual. As in November and December 2017, low pressure sys-tems dominated the weather in January. Some of them again developed into massive storm cyclones, which brought an unusually long period of mild weather to western and southern Germany and extreme precipitation to the south-west. Only the north-east was influenced by high pressure systems at times with colder and drier air. This is what the ini-tial analysis by the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) of data from its around 2,000 weather stations shows.

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