The Danish capital Copenhagen has had its coldest November night in 104 years. In a measuring station at the airport, the temperature dropped to -7.7 degrees Celsius.
According to Danish meteorologist Sebastian Pelt, it was the coldest November night in 30 years in all of Denmark. On Tuesday during the day, the mercury did not rise above freezing anywhere in the country. The maximum temperature remained at -0.1 degrees. “That is extremely rare and very unusual so early in the winter,” Pelt said.
It has been since 1965 that the first ice day of the year fell in November.
It is unusually cold for this time of year throughout northern Europe. Heavy snowfall and slippery roads cause a lot of inconvenience in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Germany.
There are problems especially in the German state of Hesse. According to the dpa news agency, power outages and accidents were caused by trees falling under the weight of the snow. In Rheingau-Taunus near Frankfurt, people got stuck in their cars and in Wiesbaden, 55 teachers and students had to spend the night at school because buses stopped running.
At least two people were also killed, according to German media. A 71-year-old man was killed in a head-on collision on a slippery road in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg on Monday evening. And in the neighboring state of Rhineland-Palatinate, a 54-year-old female driver suffered the same fate.
Was this autumn really that cold, gray and wet? This is what the numbers say: “The autumn of 2023 was head and shoulders above the rest in one area” (+)
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