Status: 06/27/2022 1:03 p.m
Heavy rain, heavy gusts of wind and thunderstorms: Storms can occur in large parts of Germany in the next few days. According to the German Weather Service, hailstones as big as table tennis balls threaten occasionally.
In many regions of Germany, people will have to prepare for severe weather hazards in the coming days. According to the German Weather Service (DWD), there could be heavy rain, heavy gusts of wind and hail in large parts of the country by the weekend – in individual cases the grains can be as big as table tennis balls. “There is still steam in the boiler, because the weather conditions are not changing,” said a DWD meteorologist.
According to the information, the cause of the high risk of thunderstorms is a low-pressure area in the British Isles and a high-pressure area over Eastern Europe. They ensure that humid Mediterranean air flows into Germany from the south and south-west. “Exactly over the country there is an air mass limit, in the area of which there are always showers and thunderstorms with an increased potential for severe weather,” explained the meteorologist.
Large temperature differences in the country
This leads to huge temperature differences: while the DWD expects up to 36 degrees in the east today, the values in the west are just over 20 degrees. There are reports of light rain showers. In the eastern federal states, on the other hand, there were already official warnings of “extreme heat” in the morning. The DWD also expects the strongest thunderstorms in the east.
On Tuesday, thunderstorms and storms are likely to brew, especially in the southern half, which will then move north on Wednesday night. “On Wednesday it will therefore be quite unstable with muggy temperatures almost throughout the country,” said the meteorologist.
Accordingly, the showers and sometimes strong thunderstorms will spread northwards in the middle of the week. In the extreme west, and later also in the extreme south-west, it will remain dry. The maximum values fluctuate between 23 and 28 degrees. Rain will return in the west on Thursday. At the edge of the Alps and in the middle there are heavy showers and thunderstorms.