German weather service confident that 2023 will be warmest on record
The year 2023 is the warmest in Germany since records began in 1881, according to the German Weather Service (DWD), in what it told dpa was a confident prediction five days before the end of the calendar year.
The average temperature is expected to be 10.6 degrees Celsius, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
Temperature records have been broken across the globe this year.
Globally, the current year is set to be the warmest since records began, the European Union's Climate Change Service Copernicus said earlier this month.
Unseasonably warm weather experienced across Germany over the Christmas period did not however break previous records, DWD forecaster Adrian Leyser told dpa.
"Christmas was rather mild, but in most regions not a record," he said.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps on the Austrian border did post a record with an average daily high of 16.1 degrees Celsius measured between December 24 and 26.
"It was considerably warmer in the foothills of the Alps in 2013," Leyser said.
The highest temperature over the three festive days was in Piding in Berchtesgaden in Upper Bavaria, where 19.3 degrees was recorded in 2013, followed by Freiburg with 18.9 degrees in 2012.
