The climate in Luxembourg in 2011

For the third time in station history the anomaly of the annual mean air temperature relative to the reference period from 1961 to 1990 exceeded plus 2.0 K. 2011 was the warmest year (10.6 °C) with data ever recorded by the Meteorological Service of Luxembourg at the Findel-Airport station since 1947. The number of 32 summer days was higher than normal and due to the large number of cloudy days during summer the number of hot days was below the long-term normal. On the other hand the number of days with frost (53), ice (7), and ground frost (66) in 2011 were considerably below the normal.