Today it’s hard for me to believe that a few weeks ago, at the end of May, I had several geraniums still ‘over-wintering’ next to the windows in my apartment, waiting for nighttime temps to be warm enough to put them back outside.
I was worried we were in for a repeat of last summer, when there were only a few isolated days it got hot enough to want to go to the lake or a swimming pool.
Who would have thought Berlin would follow up its the coldest winter in 16 years with its hottest summer weekend in, well, ever.
On Saturday and Sunday, the high temperature in Berlin reached 40C (that’s 104F) both days - with parts of central Berlin recording 41C on Sunday afternoon. That breaks the previous record high temperature of 38.9 that was set in August of 2015.
Farther east in Brandenburg, near the border with Poland, it was even hotter, with the Spree-Oder district setting Germany’s new heat record at 41.7 (107F).
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