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Introduction - 2023 Monitoring Report
… a temperature in excess of 40 °C was measured 5 . In the years of 2018, 2019, 2020 and latterly in 2022, periods of great heat caused, in particular, … occurred distinctly more frequently than in respect of the nationwide mean. Between 2018 and 2020, some 19,300 individuals died as a result of heat effects in Germany … . As far as the water budget is concerned, massive losses were incurred between 2018 and 2020. Ever since the turn of the millennium, Germany has been losing 2.5 …