Erfurt/Offenbach (dpa/th) – In no other federal state did it rain less in June than in Thuringia. With a meager 25 liters of precipitation per square meter, the Free State was last in the country ranking, as the German Weather Service (DWD) announced on Wednesday in Offenbach. For comparison: According to the meteorologists, an average of almost 60 liters per square meter fell in Germany.
Calculated for Germany, that was almost a third less precipitation than the average for the reference period 1961 to 1990 (85). Compared to the period from 1991 to 2020, the minus was almost 20 percent. According to the average for the reference period 1961 to 1990, around 78 liters per square meter should have fallen in Thuringia. Due to the exceptional drought and the resulting low water levels, water abstraction from surface waters has been banned in some areas.
At the same time, the first summer month of the year was the fourth warmest June in Bavaria since measurements began, with an average of 18.5 degrees Celsius. Here Thuringia was slightly above the national average of 18.4 degrees Celsius. The sun shone over the Free State for 280 hours, five hours more than the national average. The sun in June in Germany exceeded its target of 203 hours (period 1961 to 1990) by around 35 percent.
