This is how warm the “Indian summer” will be now

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2. North Rhine-Westphalia

Status: 15.09.2024, 13:10

From: Daniele Giustolisi

It’s getting warm again in NRW! The weather models show a clear trend. The DWD is even talking about “Indian summer”. What does that mean for the weather?

Dortmund – And suddenly it was here: autumn. In NRW, the weather recently changed relatively quickly from midsummer warmth to autumnal cool. Temperatures sometimes dropped close to freezing at night. But now there are signs of a change in the weather trend in NRW. The German Weather Service (DWD) is predicting a change in the weather for our state.

DWD announces weather change in NRW: Summer is back!

The DWD’s 10-day trend currently shows a continuously rising curve in terms of temperatures. By Sunday (September 22), temperatures in NRW could rise to 25 degrees during the day. In connection with the weather trend, the DWD even uses the term “Indian summer”. It will be predominantly sunny and dry.

The term “Indian summer” comes from the old German word “weiben,” which means to weave. According to the German Weather Service, it describes constant early autumn high pressure systems over Central Europe. These occur particularly frequently from mid-September to early October. During the day there are summer temperatures, and at night it gets cool, with heavy dew and often fog.

NRW expects “Indian summer”: daily maximum temperatures around 25 degrees

Using Dortmund as an example, the geographical center of NRW, this means the following in terms of daily maximum temperatures for the coming days according to the 14-day trend from “Kachelmannwetter”:

• Monday (16 September): 18 degrees
• Tuesday (17 September): 19 degrees
• Wednesday (18 September): 20 degrees
• Thursday (19 September): 23 degrees
• Friday (20 September): 23 degrees
• Saturday (21 September): 23 degrees
• Sunday (22 September): 23 degrees

Weather forecast: How long will the “Indian summer” last in NRW?

For the days after that, the relatively high temperatures are expected to come to an end, but they appear to be falling slightly again from Monday (September 23). It will be interesting to see how long the Indian summer will last in NRW.