Winter 2024/2025: Mild and snow -poor - that's how it goes!

Winter 2024/2025: Mild and snow -poor - that's how it goes!

In the district of Euskirchen, the winter of 2024/2025 was registered as the 14th to warm winter in a row. Its character shaped mild temperatures and a lack of snow, which increases the worries about the climate heating.

February 2025 divided into sunny and temporarily cooler phases. According to the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger overall stayed dry overall. Under the influence of high pressure, the circle experienced a week -long drought until February 24th. On February 21, daily temperatures reached 17.1 degrees in Sinzenich and even 17.9 degrees in Heimbach.

temperature fluctuations and precipitation

The nightly temperatures, on the other hand, fell well below zero degrees in the valley. It was particularly frosty in places like Dahlemer Binz, where values ​​of up to -12.1 degrees were measured. Weather forecast informs that the average temperatures in the deeper and medium-sized locations were again over the long-term mean.

Overall, the rainfall fell to 30 to 60 percent of the mean values ​​in February. No significant snow blankets were reported in many regions such as Lommersum and Udenbreth. This corresponds to the general observations for the winter of 2024/2025, which was considered particularly low in snow and brought more rain showers than real snowfall.

climatic relationships

The causes of this weather phenomenon are complex. In the website of the educational server Hamburg the influence of the man-made greenhouse effect, which contributes to global warming. In Europe, the temperatures between 1991 and 2020 rose by about 0.5 ° C per decade, more than twice as strong as the global average.

The average rainfall of the winter was 155.9 l/m², which corresponds to only 88.8 percent of the setpoint of 180 l/m². This is an average sunshine duration of 184.6 hours, which exceeded 114.2 percent of the desired value of 153 hours. February 2025 was the coldest month of winter, but without real winter sports conditions.

Overall, the winter 2024/2025 in the Euskirchen region shows not only the challenges of the changing climate, but also the need to be prepared for future developments in order to counter the effects of climate change.