Weather in the Kalmit vineyard 2023 (38zus)
Von Matthias C.S. Dreyer
- 2 Minuten - 248 WörterChristian Müller, member of the Club Sellemols (Historienfreunde Maikammer-Alsterweiler) and managing director of Klima-Palatina, has put together a weather report for the Kalmit and the Kalmit vineyard.
You can find a comparison to recent years here: https://www.klima-palatina.de/wetter-klima.html
Image: Signpost stone on Wetterkreuzberg, below the Kalmit vineyard, 2023.
The weather in 2023 summarized:
According to weather expert Christian Müller, head of the “Klima-Palatina” weather office in Maikammer, last year was warm compared to the long-term 30-year climate average and at some weather stations in the Palatinate it was even the warmest year since the beginning the respective local weather records.
-There were large fluctuations in the distribution of precipitation, as previously reported for the individual months.
-With around 1,840 hours of sunshine on the Kalmit, the year 2023 was slightly above average in sunshine in the Palatinate.
-The highest wind speed of 2023 was recorded on March 10th with hurricane gusts of 12 to 129 km/h at the weather station on the Kalmit Tower.
-The first snow of the late year fell on the Kalmit and in the Palatinate Forest on November 27th with light permanent frost. Christmas was green and therefore snow-free. On New Year’s Eve it was mild with windy weather of up to 10 degrees.
So a warm 2023 lies behind us on the Kalmit. The above-average rainfall in October and November compensated for the large rainfall deficits in spring and summer.
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