Warm and wet…
According to preliminary results from the data collected from Germany’s approximately 2000 weather stations, the year 2023 was the warmest on record. So reports the Offenbach, Germany-based DWD national weather service.
Yet, official claims don’t always seem to correspond to real life observations. Despite 6th wettest year on record and mass flooding this recent month, German officials also still insist there’s a drought in many areas. Chart source: UFZ.
DWD activism: “We need to step up climate protection efforts”
2023 was the warmest year in Germany since measurements began in 1881 and “a new record year for temperatures worldwide,” says Tobias Fuchs, Director of Climate and Environment at the German Weather Service (DWD). “Climate change continues unabated. We need to step up our climate protection efforts and adapt to the damage caused by extreme weather events.”
According to the EU climate service Copernicus, 2023 will also be the warmest year ever globally.
Note, however, that according to over 60,000 stations worldwide at temperatureglobal, 2023 was barely above a tenth of a degree warmer. Currently the global temperature is a comparatively cool 14.45°C
In Germany, 2023 was dominated by warm and humid conditions with high levels of precipitation, which made last year one of the wettest on record. According to the DWD, all months in 2023 were too warm. The average temperature in 2023 reached a mean of 10.6 degrees Celsius (°C), more than 1°C above the 1991-2020 reference period. A mild start followed by a hot summer and a warm fall led to the new record.
6th wettest
In terms of precipitation, it was the sixth wettest year since records began, with over 20 percent more precipitation than normal. Around 958 liters per square meter (l/m²) precipitation fell in the year, Normal is 791 l/m². The northeast of Germany remained comparatively “dry” with widespread amounts of around 600 l/m², reports the DWD.
Sunnier than normal
There was 5% more sunshine than usual, at around 1,764 hours. Normal is 1665 hours (1991 – 2020 reference period). It was sunniest near the coast and in the south, with over 2,000 hours in some areas. In comparison, it remained cloudier in the low mountain ranges with around 1,600 hours.
In addition to all months in 2023 being too comfortable, all months in 2023 were too wealthy. Alll months in 2023 were too healthy.
Worryingly, global agricultural output was also too high.
All months in 2023 had too many funny videos of Biden falling up stairs, off bikes, on stage, inventing new languages, and shaking hands with invisible friends.
Trump proposed renaming April Fool’s Day
as Joe Bribe’em Day.
Plans to play a video of Bribe’ems pratfalls and gibberish at every Trump election rally.
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAA_27K4FIKkb7ZlLIDzSbrQDoxulapFJ
Thank You
best gift I got this year
If there are any ads on the videos
Joe Bribe;em gets 10% of the fees
Thinking like a climate alarmist, clearly CO2 causes a Joe Biden.
That’s bad enough, but rising CO2 also causes chuckleheads as VP.
Averages are great aren’t they. Mash the data to a pulp and pick out the juicy bits that you think you like.
Fine. Go ahead. Ignore what’s really happening.
Normalise your own extinction.
Attached is a map showing somewhere You’ve Never Heard Of, Never Want to Hear Of, Never Want To Live There, Totally Zero Interest, in The Middle of Nowhere yet strangely it has oddly similar ‘climate average‘ numbers to Germany where everyone does want to live
Why is that
Let me guess, Peta. Are there sugar mongers engaging in slash and burn agriculture in the erstwhile DDR?
Now that you mention it, the drought map resembles a map showing the areas of greatest support for AfD. Proof positive that Climate Change ™ causes far right radical extremism.
It’s a sugar rush…
Real Climate Data for N’Djamena, Chad is found at:
https://www.climatestotravel.com/climate/chad/ndjamena
It is hotter and has more variable rain than in Germany.
NoTrickZone is not a reliable source of climate science
Not even close
This article claims
“according to over 60,000 stations worldwide at temperatureglobal, 2023 was barely above a tenth of a degree warmer.”
That statement is a lie if is comparing 2023 to 2022, especially the second half of 2023
The fact that Germany was warm, wet and with more sunshine that average, is good news. This weather report did not bother to say that, which is an obvious conclusion.
I guess “Great Weather in Germany in 2023” would not attract many readers?
Not seeing what is wrong with the original post.
He cites and correctly summarizes a study by the DWD::
https://www.dwd.de/DE/presse/pressemitteilungen/DE/2023/20231229_deutschlandwetter_jahr2023_news.html
You object that the data is good news, but that the report does not say this. The DWD does not draw the conclusion from its data that you do, but that is nothing to do with NoTricksZone, that’s an issue (if there is one) for the DWD. He has just summarized it, and I think correctly.
Then, he says that temperature.global reports a difference, I think between 2022 and 2023, of less than a tenth of a degree. Here is the site:
https://temperature.global/
His claim is a limited one, its about what the site says. He is not making an assertion about global temperatures, except by implication in that he refers to that site. The only question would be, has he correctly stated what the site says?
I don’t find it very easy to find a comparison between these two years. Maybe you have? But I think before accusing him of lying about what the site says you should say what you think the site reports as the difference. I haven’t been able to find it on a quick glance through, but I see no reason to think he is lying.
On the other issue he claims temperature.global uses over 60,000 stations. This is correct, the number is actually at the moment 62,425. It varies all the time depending on the last one they are processing.
temperature.global is a reasonable site to report on. You can argue about whether other sites are better indicators, but to simply quote what you have found it says is definitely not lying.
I don’t really see what your problem is.
Greene comes down on both sides of any issue to stir people up.
He’s just a clickbait artist.
I hereby request that Richard sign his posts with the name whichever of his multiple personalities who wrote the post.
AND as it seems that the personalities may change in the MIDDLE of a post, so note the changes of personalities for each section.
All I can do is ask, possible he has one dominant personality that can make it happen.
I may not be a psychiatrist, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express sometime in the past!
I aways wanted to be an artist
This article was pointless
It said two things
(1) Germany had a great climate in 2023
(2) A few small areas of the nation had a drought, which the author seems to imply is impossible if there was more rain in Germany than usual. WRONG.
The author claims the official chart shows many areas had a drought, but the word “m.any” is an exaggeration of what the chart actually shows
Te author makes no attempt to justify his implication that German officials are lying with that drought chart. Just a smear not supported by facts or data. There is no evidence of deception with that drought chart.
Unusually wet or unusually dry conditions are unlikely to affect 100% of a nation for a full year. What happened in Germany was nothing unusual.
Consider the US Dust Bowl of the 1930s
What US states were most affected by the drought of 1932?
Great dust storms spread from the Dust Bowl area. The drought is the worst ever in U.S. history, covering more than 75 percent of the country and affecting 27 states severely. There were 48 states at the time.
New England states were not in a drought. Nor was Alabama.
What percentage of the US did the drought of 1934 cover?
Using a tree-ring-based drought record from the years 1000 to 2005 and modern records, scientists from NASA and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory found the 1934 drought was 30 percent more severe than the runner-up drought (in 1580) and extended across 71.6 percent of western North America.
The drought and erosion of the Dust Bowl affected 100 million acres (400,000 km2) that centered on the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma Panhandle and touched adjacent sections of New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas.
Only a fool would ignore HadCRUT, NASA-GISS, UAH and RSS global average temperature data to falsely claim 2023 is only +0.1 degree C. warmer than 2022. when 2023 is the warmest year in the real time measurement record. I don’t care who made that claim. Just reporting it out of context of actual statistics used by climate scientists is misleading, Repeating obviously wrong information is lying to your readers.
I estimate 2023 will be about +0.4 degrees C. warmer than 2022 in the UAH database.
The global average temperatures do not use 60,000 stations. There are 32,000 stations they keep track of and they don’t use all of them for a global average temperature.
60,000 weather stations?
For HadCRUT
Surface air temperatures (SATs) are measured at weather stations. 32,000 weather stations are currently in operation and feed into various GAST indices. Surface sea temperatures (SSTs) are measured at the surface of the sea as a proxy for immediately overlying air temperatures.
NASA-GISS v4 used 20,924 stations
There are roughly 4,000 ARGO floats in the oceans if you want to call them weather stations
NoTrickZone consistently publishes jink studies that claim CO2 does not cause global warming or causes far less warming than measured in a lab with spectroscopy. Kenneth Richard is the main offender
This is what the site says:
Deviation: 0.8°F/0.44°CStations processed last hour: 71736Last station processed: Toluca, MexicoUpdate time: 2023-12-31 14:50:15 UTC
Are you saying they did not in fact process 71736 stations in the last hour?
I don’t know whether this is a good site or not. It is reporting raw data, not homogenized. There may be arguments for and against this. Citing it correctly is not lying. It may be misleading, opinionated… etc. But its not lying.
Again, you say it says that Germany had a great climate in 2023. I can’t see where it says that. It simply posts what the weather was, according to the Government agency, the DWD. I can’t see anything improper about that either.
Warm is good news especially for Germany
Lots of rain is good news too
The article ignored those facts..
The 2023 Germany climate should have been celebrated but it was not
If Germany had been cold and dry in 2023 NoTrickZone would be the first to moan and groan, in my opinion.
The GAT statistic used in the article is not the same as the statistics used by scientists for the global average temperature, The article ignored the preferred statistics which are quite different than what is presented. ,GAT of only +0.1 warming in a big El Nino year, which would be very unusual.
The author got so excited he completely forgot about te statistics that scientists use. That is biased and coud convince conservatives to tell everyone they know 2023 was barely warmer than 2022, when that is a lie.
The only point the article could have made, BUT DID NOT, is that Germany was warm in 2023, similar to the rest of the world and. that was great news for Germany.
Richard, I agree with holding our side to the highest standards of accuracy for precisely the reason you gave that sloppy work can be counterproductive.
But I very much disagree with calling an error or an inaccuracy a ‘lie’. A lie is an intentionally false statement with the intent to mislead.
The George Costanza principle (“It’s not a lie if you believe it”) is a sitcom joke, true. But George meant something closer to “It’s not a lie if you have plausible deniability that you were aware it was untrue.” Someone who sincerely believes a proposition that is objectively false is just mistaken. We should not cheapen the word ‘lie’ by misapplying it.
You may also think that you see a pattern of making similar mistaken claims, but that is not evidence, much less proof, of an intent to mislead. The simpler explanation is consistency, an attribute of integrity.
What your points amount to is you would have written a different article, starting from the same information he cites. You would have made different comments. You would have cited different information.
I might have too, other readers might have written differently if assigned the task. But that’s what happens when people are giving their opinions. They may be right or wrong, motivated or not, but they have their opinions just like you and I do.
Just because you would have written a different article, cited different temperature series, whatever, that’s not a reason for accusing him of lying. Saying that he is mistaken, doing motivated reasoning etc, fine.
He was not interested in evaluating the German climate in 2023, at least not in this piece. Get over it.
temperature.global is interesting by the way, I don’t find it easy to navigate, but am pleased to have had it brought to attention.
I wonder if they have announced this now in order to exclude December temperatures which, I have read, have been exceptionally cold.
Winter weather could be mild, German met office DWD says
Reuters
November 11, 2022
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/winter-weather-could-be-mild-german-met-office-dwd-says-2022-11-10/
An Arctic Blast heads for Europe, Forecast to Deliver Coldest Air of the Winter Season, Snow for the Alps, and a Stress Test for the Electric grids this weekend
By Author Marko Korosec
Published: 09/12/2022
https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/winter-season-2022-2023-arctic-cold-blast-december-forecast-snow-europe-mk/
“In terms of precipitation, it was the sixth wettest year since records began, with over 20 percent more precipitation than normal.”
and
“There was 5% more sunshine than usual, at around 1,764 hours.”
I can only assume that Germany had most of its additional rain at night or from cloudless skies
I saw the same puzzle. 5% of 365 days would be 18 days more sunshine. Only conclusion I reached was … data must be variable or not well related or the instrumentation is poor; man, machine, method problems.
Warmer, wetter and sunnier. Sounds perfect for agriculture. Was it?
If it was both warm and wet, that would strongly imply that the warmth was due to higher minima, not hotter afternoon highs.
Warmer at night and during the colder months, is not the same thing as hotter during Summer days.
Warmer when it is normally cool or cold, is also known as “milder”.
There was a headline last week on the weather channel website, that stated that in January in the northern US, residents will likely endure hotter than normal conditions.
Is there anyone who does not see the problem with such malarkey?
Right- if January is 25F rather than 22F, it’s hardly smart to call it “hotter”. Similar to saying the ocean is acidifying when it’s not remotely close to being acid. We might use similar logic and say Biden is severely brain damaged when he’s only moderately demented. 🙂
Let’s compromise. He’s significantly brain damaged which sometimes results in episodes of severe dementia, normally presents as a mild dementia, but he’s definitely not yet a complete vegetable. His lucid moments can sometimes last for hours.
Surely we can safely assume that our adversaries will refrain from any shenanigans outside of his 3/4 (vs 24/7) hours of lucidity? You don’t think so? C’mon man! You know the thing…whatever. Lying dog-faced pony soldier!
“in January in the northern US, residents will likely endure hotter than normal conditions.”
We understand the word “endure” differently. I would have used the word “enjoy”. January North of Virginia is challenging.
Shocker #1. A slightly warmer world has more moisture in air.
Shocker #2. More hours of sunshine in a year with slightly elevated temperatures.
Next year will have less precip than the average which will then be our fault as well.
Shock, all the way down.
I was in south and SW germany in June, was definitely dry then
Natural climate warming may be the only thing keeping Germans citizens from freezing in the dark given the government’s energy policies. Nature is clearly far more reliable than progressive politicians and environmental pseudo-experts.
Warmest year ever recorded since 1981? So that means 1981 was as warm or warmer, right?
But how can that be? With all the additional CO2 and methane in the atmosphere now, shouldn’t it have been considerably cooler back then?
Unless our emissions aren’t actually the primary driver of global temperature….
Anecdotal evidence might be of no use whatsoever but here’s some, anyway.
I spent a fortnight in Germany in July 2022. For the most part the temperature (in the middle of Germany) was in the high 20s and for several days was in the mid-30s. There was much concern about the low level of the Rhine. The heat was supposed to be a contributing factor. In 2023, I went back to Germany. This time I chose June in the hope that it might not be as hot as July had been in 2022. In that I was right. After I got home, I followed the weather forecast for July to see if I had gained by going in June. At no time did the forecasts in July show the temperature as high as it had been in July 2022. Incidentally, it seems that I was very lucky this year. Despite being in Germany for a fortnight I had very few days of rain.
I want to know what temperature the treemometers said it was for the year….and compare to the weather station thermometers….for a friend….
“adapt to the damage caused by …”
Fix the damage. Adapt to the enviroment by making sure it doesn’t happen too often.