Midsummer temperatures with values of well over 30 degrees: This is what the weather experts expect for Germany in the coming days. In some places the heat discharges with thunderstorms and heavy rain.
Berlin (dpa) – After the fight for the last place in the sun, many are likely to seek shade in the coming days: At well over 30 degrees, Germany hits the first heat wave of summer. Wednesday already brought annual highs – and by Friday it will probably get hotter and hotter.
Up to now, very warm air from the Mediterranean region had made the west and southwest in particular sweat. According to the German Weather Service (DWD), it was warmest on Wednesday with 33.9 degrees near Speyer, in the village of Waghäusel-Kirrlach.
In the evening there is a threat of thunderstorms and heavy rain
Today, according to the meteorologists, there could be isolated thunderstorms with storms, hail and heavy rain in the west and northwest. The maximum values are likely to be 30 to 36 degrees, on the islands it remains significantly cooler.
Showers and thunderstorms can be expected again on Friday. There are also local heat thunderstorms in the Alps. Otherwise it remains summery and dry. The heat hotspot is then again in the east of the country, with up to 37 degrees.
The first countries are starting their summer vacation
Depending on the summer temperatures, the big school holidays in Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg and Berlin will start next week, with Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria starting last at the end of July. It should then be full again on the streets. “Car trips are on the upswing, and the trend towards vacationing in one’s own country is continuing this summer,” reported Europe’s largest tourism group TUI.
Is there a threat of a “super-traffic jam summer” on German autobahns? No, says ADAC spokesman Andreas Hölzel in Munich. Considerable tourist traffic is to be expected on the motorways and holiday routes in Germany, but “we don’t see a” super-traffic jam summer “because of this”. The intensive tourist traffic does not begin until mid-July.
The risk of forest fires is increasing in many places
The risk of forest fires is also increasing in many places. That is why Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, for example, rely on the use of two small aircraft for the early detection of fires. The Cessnas, manned by a pilot, an observer and a forester, should fly their routes in some areas of the federal states from Thursday and look out for smoke, said Thomas Friedhoff, a consultant for the Lower Saxony fire service.
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