For the third day in a row, the German Weather Service (DWD) reported on Sunday a record hot temperature, this time of 41.7 degrees Celsius in the eastern state of Brandenburg.
The provisional record high was recorded in the afternoon in Neißemünde in the Brandenburg district of Oder-Spree, the weather service said in response to an enquiry. The town is around 130 kilometres south-east of Berlin on the Polish border.
The most recent record for the country's hottest temperature had only been set two days ago, when the weather service recorded 41.3 degrees on Friday in Saarbrücken-Burbach near the French border, according to preliminary figures.
On Saturday at 3 pm (1300 GMT), 41.4 degrees was measured at the same station. The next record was also registered on Saturday at 4:20 pm with 41.5 degrees in Möckern-Drewitz in Saxony-Anhalt.
Warmest night since records began
The night that followed was, according to preliminary DWD figures, the warmest since records began. In Kubschütz in eastern Saxony, the overnight temperature did not fall below 29.4 degrees. That beat the previous record for the warmest night - 27.2 degrees Celsius on August 13 2003 in the Weinbiet mountain in Rhineland-Palatinate - by more than two degrees.
