The summer of 2024 has been the wettest since 2011. A total of 295.7 millimeters of precipitation has fallen nationally from June to August, according to Martin Lindberg, meteorologist on duty at the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI).
In the summer months of 2011, 321.7 millimeters of precipitation fell, according to DMI’s summary of last year’s summer.
According to Martin Lindberg, an extensive low pressure between Iceland, the British Isles and Scandinavia is the cause of this summer’s massive amounts of rain.
“It has pushed fronts of rain across the country from the west”, he says on Sunday afternoon.
July 2024 was the wettest summer month of the year with 114.2 millimeters of precipitation. In June, there was 96.1 millimeters of precipitation, while in August, 85.4 millimeters of precipitation fell.
The climate normal for precipitation totals for the summer in the period 1991 to 2020 is 212.2 millimeters, it says on DMI’s website. As a result, over 80 millimeters more rain has fallen than what can normally be expected from a Danish summer. Climate normals are used as a reference to compare changes in the climate from previous periods to today.
Martin Lindberg explains that global warming leads to more water vapour, which results in more rain. However, this does not mean that it will rain more in the coming summers.
“It fluctuates a lot, so we could easily have a summer with high pressure blockages in Northern Europe, where the low pressure does not reach us. Then it will be drier than usual,’ says the meteorologist.
DMI began its national rainfall measurements in 1874.
2023 entered Danish weather history when, according to DMI, the year was the wettest that has ever been measured in Denmark.
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Source: politiken.dk
