By P Gosselin on 23. April 2025
Central Europe has been experiencing a bout of dry weather since February. Germany’s DWD national weather service reported in a recent press release that just 19 liters per square meter (l/m²) fell in March compared to the approx. 60 liters that normally fall in the month. This made last March one of the driest since measurements began in 1881.
“The pronounced drought, which had already lasted in some regions since the beginning or middle of February, was caused by high-pressure areas that repeatedly settled over Central Europe or in the surrounding area,” reports the DWD.
Not surprisingly, the media are making alarmist claims of unprecedented drought, and all hinting it’s due to climate sins by mankind.
Driest years overwhelmingly before 1980
So is drought in rainy Germany something new that we have only begun to experience, like the media and pols suggest?
The historical data show that the answer is clearly NO.
Four of the 5 driest years on record in Germany occurred before 1960. Eight of the top 9 occurred before man-made climate change was ever an issue (before 1980).
Annual precipitation of the 9 driest years since 1881. Hat-tip: Stefan Homburg
And when we look at Germany’s long-term precipitation trend since data began to be recorded, we see the trend is in fact becoming wetter:
Chart: DWD.
Yet, green politicians in Germany have begun calling for a “masterplan” for water-saving and, not surprisingly, more restrictions on how we use water.
Dr. Stefan Homburg summarizes at the end of his video: “I just can’t get my head around it, ladies and gentlemen. I personally don’t understand as a final evaluation why we allow politicians to really ignore real, existing problems and instead invent problems that don’t exist at all in order to derive restrictions on our lives and, above all, to make life more and more expensive through CO2 taxes certificates and so on.”
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Imagine that, taxing a gas that all animals (Horses, Whales, Amoeba, Bacteria and Humans alike) produce through respiration and that All plant life from Algae to Sequoia Trees depends on to thrive. It’s surely the greatest Money Grab ever by ANY Socialized Government.
Termites produce more CO2 than 8 billion humans
With increased CO2 ppm, there will be more flora and more termites!
Ain’t that a b…..
If CO2 is pollution, then why are not all 8 billion people in prison?
Ignoring facts and history is the left’s forte. People in their dumbness and glued to screens play in their hands by repeating like parrots it’s blatant lies.
I think to have read somewhere that Germany suffered the worst drought ever recorded in the 16th century. The year without rain, 11 months of drought. Well I wonder who drove back in the days cars with combustion engines …time travellers perhaps?
Bit of a Late Antique man myself-
Ancient rocks boost case for mini ice age linked to fall of Rome
This ties in neatly with evidence for a colder period sometimes called the Late Antique Little Ice Age. The cause of this event is unclear – some think it was triggered by volcanoes, others by fragments of a comet striking Earth. Spencer thinks it was simply down to orbital changes affecting how much of the sun’s heat reaches Earth.
You cannot tell the severity of s friugh just by looking at annual rainfall.
This story is about March, and using the same data, March 2025 was the 6th dryest March on record, and 4 of the 9 dryest Marches have been in the last 20 years.
But there are going to be many other factors the determine the severity of the drought, including temperature and sunshine.
Rainfall drops for a couple of weeks? That’s not even worth talking about.
They were talking about 10 weeks. Beginning of February to mid-April were the driest such period since at least 1931.
https://www.dwd.de/DE/presse/pressemitteilungen/DE/2025/20250415_pm_trockenheit_news.html
Do you expect things to be constant at all times everywhere?
No.
And 5 of those 9, more than 50%, were more than 20 years ago. Give your head a shake.
So 4 out of a 20 year period, verses 5 out of a 125 year period.
Factual. Droughts are not caused by one factor. Droughts are not caused by CO2. It is likely that droughts reduce CO2 in the area of the drought.
England also so far has had a very dry spring.
With this March been the 6th driest on record since 1836 and with the highest total sunshine hours on record since 1910. All thanks to high pressure dominating the weather patterning over Europe this spring.
It looks like High Pressure Systems are causing the lack of rain, not CO2.
There is no established connection between CO2 and where a High Pressure System sets up.
A reduction in rainfall that has lasted 2 1/2 to 3 months, and they are panicking?
Look it up: ‘hunger steine’, hunger stones. See me and weep.
Boulder, Colorado average annual precipitation is about 555 millimeters (21.6″) including snow. So, our average is the same as Germanys worst drought! Somehow, we survive without grumbling.
“So, our average is the same as Germanys worst drought! Somehow, we survive without grumbling.”
Where do you think your water comes from?
https://bouldercolorado.gov/services/water-supply-and-planning
Maybe so, but I don’t receive my water from there. I live two miles outside of town and have a well.
Water supply is of limited connection to droughts. Rainfall is much more tightly coupled.
The Rhine is down somewhat. The webcam at Rees is showing sandbanks on the opposite shore.
https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/deutschland/north-rhine-westphalia/rees/rees.html
the rain gauges and tape measures were just not as accurate back then. adjustments will be made