Already as early as May 2025 predictions of a hellish record-breaking hot summer with possibly thousands of heat deaths were forecast – much of it based on the unusually dry and warm spring that had gripped much of Central Europe at the time.
Hat-tip: Frank Bosse at Klimanachrichten
The online Frankfurter Rundschau printed a weather column by meteorologist Dominick Jung just over 2 weeks ago, on July 13, warning of a “looming, huge heat dome” for the rest of the summer over Central Europe.
German TWC meteorologist Jan Schenk had already made a prediction in Focus magazine on June 10, 2025: “According to this, we can expect extreme heat and drought in Germany, especially in July and August.”
Then came reality.
Just recently, even the climate-alarmism purveyor Der Spiegel had to concede that “it feels more like autumn.”
Plenty of rain has been falling, along with snow high in the Alps.
So what was behind all the ridiculous hellish-summer forecasts? Veteran Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann in an interview with the online Bild called all the constant exaggerations and distortion: “Symbols of an education problem with us.”
At the end of June, 2025, after having made ridiculous made predictions a year earlier in 2024, biologist Mark Benecke lectured again on climate and weather to an auditorium, showing such weather model maps:
Image: Screenshot Youtube
Benecke warned this was the new climate normal.
A month later, he employed a “Tropical Tidbits“ model, which ironically reversed the forecast temperature anomalies:
Suddenly Germany had become too cool and France is already “very normal”!
So far this summer, since early July, Germany has seen a pronounced westerly pattern across in Central Europe, with new areas of low pressure from the Atlantic flowing in due to a pronounced jet stream driven by the difference in temperatures in the tropics/subtropics and the Arctic.
Currently, this is what the European jet stream looks like:
Source here.
Europe’s summer of 2025 has been dominated by a very active jet stream, and that tends to occur over many weeks.
This year, as is the case with most years, the experts got it all wrong. The summer will turn out to be rather unstable, cool and rainy, with the occasional very warm day, but it will not be a full-time hellish heat wave.
Journalist Axel Bojanowski therefore rightly summarizes in Die Welt: “Forecasts for more than ten days in advance are rubbish.”
So, it’s little wonder that the proportion of those who think the climate crisis is an acute, man-made problem has been decreasing. All the wild climate exaggerations are having a backfiring effect.
Original, longer article here.