“Today there will be weather, weather, weather again!” Mirco Nontschew once announced on “Saturday Night”. But has the weather map changed since then?
This weather map employed hundreds of thousands of users in 2019! Of course, weather is still weather, but the representation of weather is said to have changed over the last 10 years, in a direction that some even interpret as scaremongering:

We received many inquiries about this sharepic both in our Facebook community and via email and reporting form
Red alert!
Red is burned into memory as a signal color.
If the traffic light is red, you stop, the fire engine is red and you should avoid touching red-hot stoves if possible. Now, according to this picture, the Tagesschau weather map has recently also been red, indicating danger.
„Earlier, yes earlier… There were temperatures like that too! There was no warning on the weather map! But today! It's definitely because of these climate people! „
That's how it sounds in summary in many comments on Facebook. Some even suspect a partisan influence on the weather map, there is talk of manipulation, and the word “scientists” is put in quotation marks, since they are definitely not real scientists or have no idea anyway.
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The secret weather map exchange…. which never happened!
No date can be seen on the two weather maps, but we can confidently assume that the above weather map is really from the last few days, as the temperatures in Germany also reached these values.
But what about the weather map below?
We don't know exactly when this weather map is from, but thanks to the media library we can take a look at a daily show from 2009. Here we see a still image from minute 16:10, which corresponds in structure to the image below:

By the way, what we see in the picture above is the weather forecast for the coming days.
weather map of the day a few seconds earlier in the same video :

Anyone else surprised? Even in 2009 (and many years before that), weather with hot temperatures was already shown in red!
It is hard to believe
These allegations have now gotten to the point where ARD explains in a fact finder article how the cards work. In the article “A lot of hot air about alleged manipulation” you can see the same results as ours ( compare ).
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Conclusion
The only manipulation is not a weather map, but the sharepic itself, because in 2009 weather conditions with high temperatures were already shown in red.
Incidentally, this red is not “just like that” distributed on the map, for example in the last picture you can see 26 degrees several times, but with different shades of red, but it is the so-called isothermal map .
This means that it is not a subconscious manipulation of the audience through a colored weather map, controlled by whoever, but rather a way of representing the current weather that has been used for decades.
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