Climate in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Hey guys,

I was just wondering if anybody would be able to help me out with this question I have? I have recently found out that I will be moving to MV in September and will be living there until June at least. I was wondering, would anybody be able to tell me the typical weather of the region? Is it windy? Does it get cold in winter? How cold? Some kind of info about what the weather would be like during my stay would be really greatly appreciated.

(additional info - I will be close to Rostock by the sea, and am from Ireland)

Cheers, and have a good day!

Daniel

Weather in a particular year? Your guess is as good as mine!

It can get cold in winter (sub-zero for a number of weeks), but usually doesn't - maybe one or two short cold snaps, but generally just above freezing and damp.
It can get pretty hot in summer (high 30s), but usually only for a short period of time. This year thus far there was two or three settled nice weeks in May and apart from that a mix of sunshine and showers. Temperatures mid-teens to mid-twenties.

Basically it's pretty standard northern European weather - not as much Atlantic influence as further west (so drier and generally less windy), but also not a proper continental, or even Baltic-region climate (relatively rare to have really long settled spells). Winters and summers both are tempered by the sea and very little extreme weather of any sort.

thanks. Is it dry most of the time or does it rain quite a bit there? I thought it might be windy coz its by the sea and in the pictures I saw of the local area there were windmills

Define 'dry' and 'windy'. It's probably drier and less windy than most of Ireland. It can go two or three weeks without raining, rain solidly for 24+ hours or just have a couple of heavy showers every day for a week. Only thing you don't seem to get much of is long periods of drizzle. Overall, it probably compares to the drier parts of the British Isles (e.g. the east coast of England, but probably wetter than e.g. Aberdeen and Moray Firth).

As to the windmills - probably more to do with the large amount of arable land around and the fact that many windmills have been preserved rather than removed as much as to any quantitatively large amount of wind. Some sea breezes in summer, obviously more pronounced nearer the coast (can often be windstill and 2-3°C warmer only 10km inland) and some winter storms. Overall I wouldn't say it's particularly windswept though.

I was just trying to get a general idea. For example I lived in Valladolid, central Spain for a year and I would have described the climate there as being generally dry. Occasional thunder storms. It is not that cold in the winter - ppl are still not wearing coats in November - and begins to get quite to very hot in summer, ie 20's-30's celcius. As for Ireland, I would describe its general climate as being wet, windy, interspersed with dry spots. In the winter it can get quite cold, but no worse than -5 and in the summer it can be sunny at times, with highest temperatures at high 20's - occasionally. If someone was coming to live in Ireland I would tell them; it is going to be wet, it is going to be windy, it will get quite cold in winter, and in summer there will be some sunny days.

The predominant weather type for MV, especially Sep-June, is a mixture of rain and dry, with occasional cold spells, of what temp?, and in the summer it can get very hot, ie 30's. It is not that windy. Is that right?

So far the highest temp for the summer on the sea here has been maybe 23. I am on the coast, not talking for in the city. Since you said you were going to be on the coast. To me it is windy...some days really windy. Then again I don't really know the weather of Ireland. Today there is barely any wind, but if it feels pretty cold here it is because of the wind.
I have been here two years and haven't seen 30's in the summer. Maybe one or two days that is it. So far this year it has been between 18-24 on the coast.

Thanks Amber for the helpful information. I was trying to get a general idea, and I think you helped me a bit with that.

In Ireland I would say it is windy because of the frequency of which it occurs, not the ferocity of the wind itself. Generally I would say here it is windy more days than calm. In comparison to places like Nordrhein-Westfalen or Bavaria Ireland is a lot windier. Not that it is that much of a big deal, just trying to get an impression of what it is like, so I can get suitable clothes etc.

Do you mind me asking, what is it like in winter? If the summers are mild, are the winters as well? What would the general temperature be in winter, if you could say that, ? How cold can it get? Does it rain a lot in winter, ie more than 3,4 days a week, ?

Thanks for your help!

I don't think you need anything special from the clothes you already have, except maybe a warmer coat in the winter. Compared to Dublin, Rostock is a little warmer in summer, a little colder in winter and not quite as wet and windy year round.

Edit: Except maybe you need less clothes if you go to the nudist beach at Warnemünde, close by.

As with any place you can get weather extremes. How often have I been somewhere only to hear "we have never had so much wind/rain/snow/heat/cold" for years. Cause & effect.

IF we get the Siberian Blast like we did in January/February 1979 then the countryside disappears under metres of snow. We had it in Hamburg & Schleswig-Holstein; goes for McPomm as well.

Clearly a rare event but if you are one of those people who drag extraordinary weather behind you you never know...

My husband was born during that storm!

Ok, back to the OP. I think it hovers around 0 +/- some. The wind, though, normally makes it a bit colder.

thanks for the help