Storm warning: heavy rain aisle overruns Germany – girls run over after lightning strike

Another warning of heavy rain – after the heavy storms of the past few days, there is no relaxation in sight at the weekend for the time being. The news ticker.

Update from June 5, 7:55 p.m .: The current storms in Germany have consequences. In many places there was a strong thunderstorm at the start of the weekend. In Stuttgart, a 65-year-old worker died on Friday when a scaffold was washed away on a construction site and carried away several people.

In Laatzen, Lower Saxony, the fire department had to help people out of a flooded pedestrian underpass. According to the emergency services, the water was 30 centimeters high.

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Update from June 5, 6:01 p.m .: The sometimes storm-like thunderstorms (see previous update) are possible into the night, said a DWD meteorologist. The situation can therefore also change regionally, so that in the meantime warnings for certain areas are lifted again or new ones are issued.

Update from June 5, 3:35 p.m.: The German Weather Service warned of severe thunderstorms from the North Sea to Saxony and Eastern Bavaria on Saturday. Parts of the federal states of Bavaria, Thuringia, Saxony, Hesse, Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt are affected, as the meteorologists in Offenbach announced. There was a risk of local lightning damage, flooding of cellars and streets as well as hail damage to buildings, cars and fields.

Update from June 5, 2:55 p.m.: After the sometimes severe storms at the start of the weekend, showers and thunderstorms threaten in many places in the coming days. The DWD announced on Saturday in Offenbach. Up to and including Tuesday, it remains “inconsistent at a warm, humid level with the potential for severe weather”. The meteorologists only announced that the weather would calm down on Wednesday.

On Sunday it is clear to sunny only in the east with a locally low risk of showers. For the rest of the country, the experts warn of showers and thunderstorms. The focus is on a strip from Schleswig-Holstein to the Alps. In the east, daily highs of 24 to 28 degrees are expected, otherwise 18 to 24 degrees.

Weather in Germany: Severe weather ensures numerous missions on Friday evening

Update from June 5, 12.50 p.m.: Storms have given emergency services in Mainz and the surrounding area a lot of work. The fire brigades were called on late Friday evening within two and a half hours for around 100 operations in the Rhineland-Palatinate state capital and in the Mainz-Bingen and Alzey-Worms districts, the fire brigade announced on Saturday.

The helpers had to pump out numerous full cellars and underground garages, secure flooded streets and clean up after a landslide. The storms flooded streets and cellars in many places in Rhineland-Palatinate on Friday or washed debris on the roadways. West Germany in particular was affected by thunderstorms and heavy rain.

Official storm warning: Heavy rain aisle runs diagonally through Germany

Update from June 5, 11:24 a.m.: Another storm warning runs diagonally through Germany. After the heavy rainfalls of the past few days, relaxation is still not to be expected at the weekend in some places. Between Lower Saxony and Eastern Bavaria and West Saxony, the German Weather Service reports heavy rainfalls and storms of warning level 2 for Saturday. In addition, official level 1 and 2 warnings are already in effect in some places.

In Oldenburg, Bremen, Hanover and north of Nordhausen, striking weather of warning level 2 is to be expected. Severe thunderstorms are expected to occur locally in the late morning. Again, due to heavy rain, these can fail like a storm, warns the DWD. Thunderstorm cells could grow together in the course of the day and rain could continue for hours as a result. It should only be quieter on Sunday.

The DWD has issued an acute warning of heavy rain in Lower Saxony, north of Göttingen, between Northeim and Holzminden. Precipitation amounts between 25 l / m² and 40 l / m² per hour can be expected there. There is also a threat of gusts of wind at speeds between 70 and 75 km / h.

Weather in Germany: Differences in air pressure lead to changeable weather conditions

Update from June 5, 10:20 a.m.: The temperatures in Germany are quite impressive, but in many places violent storms and heavy rain thwart the summer. Thunderstorms can also be expected on Saturday in many places. As the German Weather Service explains, initially only the northwest will be affected by isolated thunderstorms. During the day, thunderstorms move across Germany again. Only the northeast should not be affected.

The reason for the changeable weather situation is that Germany will initially remain in the area of weak atmospheric pressure differences. “Very humid and warm air has spread over large parts of the country. Only in the north-east does dry warm air determine the weather, ”said the DWD in its warning report. Accordingly, the northwest would have to expect isolated thunderstorms and heavy rain on Saturday.

As early as the morning, further thunderstorms should arise from the northwest to eastern Bavaria and western Saxony. Heavy rain, hail and stormy gusts should also be expected. As the DWD further reports, the risk of storms is mainly due to the extreme heavy rain and large accumulations of hail. Occasional thunderstorms should also be expected on Sunday night. Only the south-west could prepare for weaker thunderstorms, in the north-east nothing should even be noticed by the weather chaos.

Storm in Germany: girls seriously injured after being struck by lightning

Update from June 5, 8:10 a.m.: During the storm on Friday there was a serious accident in Düsseldorf: After a lightning strike, a child fell on his bike and was hit by a car. The twelve-year-old girl was critically injured, said a fire department spokesman on Friday evening, according to dpa. Accordingly, lightning struck in the evening near the group of several cyclists on a street in the Urdenbacher Kämpe nature reserve.

Nobody was hit. However, the child fell and got onto the road, where it was hit by a car, as a police spokesman said. Initial findings indicated that the child had been in contact with electricity from lightning that struck the ground nearby, according to the fire department. The child’s mother, who was also among the cyclists, was also hospitalized because of a shock.

In many places there were floods due to heavy rain. In the district of Aschaffenburg in Bavaria, for example, a thunderstorm flooded numerous cellars and streets. According to Wetter Online, sewer inlets were previously blocked by a landslide, which meant that the water could no longer drain. In Neu-Anspach in Hesse, the Usa River overflowed its banks. In Bad Sobernheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, the local vaccination center was reportedly also affected, as there was a partial power outage after rain and flooding. The vaccinations could be continued.

Weather in Germany: The extreme weather situation partially calms down in the evening

Update from June 4, 10:45 p.m.: In many parts of Germany, the weather situation has calmed down. In the evening, after the last update by the German Weather Service (DWD), there was a storm warning for large parts of the Black Forest in southwestern Baden-Württemberg.

Here warnings were given in the evening of strong to regionally severe thunderstorms. Even in Berchtesgadener Land in the Bavarian Alps on the border with Austria there can be isolated thunderstorms.

Storm danger in Germany: Severe thunderstorms with extremely heavy rain and hail in Baden

Update from June 4, 8.45 p.m.: In its latest update of the so-called warning situation in Germany, the German Weather Service (DWD) warned of severe weather with severe thunderstorms in the west, the center and parts of the south.

There are heavy thunderstorms locally with extremely heavy rain, especially in the west of the Federal Republic of Germany there could be strong thunderstorms in some areas. There is currently an “official severe weather warning of severe thunderstorms with extremely heavy rain and hail” in the region around Baden-Baden and Rastatt in north-western Baden-Württemberg.

Storm danger in Germany: heavy rain kills one in Stuttgart

Update from June 4, 6.45 p.m.: In Stuttgart, the stormy rains this Friday claimed a fatality. For example, a worker was killed in an accident on an underground construction site under a tunnel between the Rosenstein Crossing and the Uferstraße. As the police from the Baden-Württemberg state capital Merkur.de announced , the underground Nesenbach swelled in the afternoon due to the heavy rain.

A scaffolding was washed away – two workers were swept away by the water. Below the surface of the earth. “The fire brigade was able to save a worker,” said a spokeswoman for the Stuttgart Police Headquarters, Merkur.de . For the other worker, on the other hand, any help came too late. The salvage work is currently still ongoing. The rescue workers also brought two other people who apparently wanted to provide help to a hospital for further medical care. It had rained heavily all Friday in the Swabian metropolis.

Storm danger in Germany: Heavy rains and thunderstorms move to Central Hesse and the Rhineland

Update from June 4th, 6.30 p.m.: The heavy rains including severe weather warnings have meanwhile shifted to the middle west of Germany. According to the German Weather Service (DWD), there are currently warnings of storms with thunderstorms in Central Hesse north of Frankfurt am Main, on the border between Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate and in the Rhineland east of Düsseldorf.

The weather situation in the foothills of the Alps is also tense in the extreme south of the Federal Republic. In the Allgäu around Oberstdorf and in the Bavarian Oberland around Bad Tölz, for example, there is a warning against striking weather with a lot of rain and isolated thunderstorms. The same applies to the northern Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg.

First report from June 4th : Offenbach – The warm temperatures of the past few days have already given a first foretaste of the coming summer *. But Germany has to wait a few more days for sun, perfect bathing weather and the odd sunburn, because showers and thunderstorms * make the weather much more uncomfortable in many places at the weekend.

Stormy weather in Germany at the weekend – DWD warns of strong thunderstorms

While showers * and thunderstorms remain the exception in the northeast on Friday and Saturday, according to the German Weather Service (DWD), rain, lightning and thunder must still be expected in the other parts of the country. In parts of Bavaria, too, thunderstorms are the order of the day after sunny spring weather. According to the DWD, it crashes in Franconia, Swabia and in
Partly strong near the Alps. The meteorologists also do not rule out heavy rain, squalls and hail.

In Baden-Württemberg, people also have to be prepared for uncomfortable weather. During the course of Friday, the meteorologists expect some heavy thunderstorms, heavy rain and hail. In North Rhine-Westphalia, the thunderstorms on Friday night, according to the DWD, initially ease a little.

Weather in Germany: Thunderstorms and heavy rain in many places – DWD warns of floods

But with lightning and thunder and rain in many places, there is also the danger of flooding. According to the DWD, there is still a risk of local storms, especially from downpours, so that occasionally full cellars and flooded underpasses can be expected. However, the temperatures cannot be driven away by the wet low. With temperatures of 22 to 28 degrees it can get muggy in many places.

Even on Sunday and at the start of the new week, the weather remains changeable and warm in early summer. The focus of the showers and thunderstorms is increasingly shifting to the southern half. In the northern half the sun can show itself more often and it remains mostly dry. The daily highs should be between 20 and 27 degrees.

The changeable weather had already shown itself in many places on Thursday. The police and fire brigade had to move in several times due to severe storms in Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse.

The storms at the weekend are likely to reinforce many people’s longing for a wonderful summer. But when does summer really start? A weather expert now dares to make a forecast * for June. * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA