Well, whether it is too hot, too dry, or whatever… 2025 was here in Freiburg: too hot, too wet, too cold. When I started looking to find these in statistics, I reviewed Freiburg’s weather over the last 20 years. The result: I couldn’t find these averages anywhere. Of course, they don’t exist. Moreover, I found no regularities either.
There are, in the last 20 years, no readable regularities. Sometimes July is hot and dry, sometimes cool and wet. Droughts can occur almost anytime.
Since the temperature fluctuations have become so pronounced, it can be 20 degrees in July and even on New Year’s Eve.
I grow vegetables, so I am directly affected. The “reliable” weather no longer exists; most guidelines for sowing, etc., no longer apply. 2025 was a total disaster for me: hardly any harvest due to the weather (cool until May/June, ultra-hot June, cool July). What the weather didn’t ruin, the snails did. They eat almost everything. Last year they even ate nasturtiums and a lot of blossoms.
The Maya first used their land intensively, then came droughts…
