Continuous rain has caused many rivers to rise in the north and east of Bavaria and has also led to flooding in some places. As the flood intelligence service (HND) of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment in Augsburg reported on Wednesday, several water levels in Upper and Lower Franconia have exceeded reporting level 3 – such as the Lauer in the Bad Kissingen district and the Steinach in the Coburg district. The Regen river near Cham in Upper Palatinate has also reached reporting level 3. Individual built-up properties, cellars and streets can be flooded. The police headquarters in Upper and Lower Franconia each reported around 20 weather-related operations on Wednesday morning. For example, smaller streets were flooded and trees fell.
For large parts of Upper and Lower Franconia as well as Upper Palatinate and Lower Bavaria, the HND continued to warn of floods and the exceeding of reporting level 3 on many rivers in the morning. The HND expected the rain level near Cham to exceed reporting level 4 by Thursday afternoon. This means that built-up areas could be flooded to a greater extent. The situation is not expected to ease until Thursday. Until then, the German Weather Service expects continuous rain of 50 to 60 liters per square meter within 48 hours.
The Rhön, the Franconian Forest and the Fichtel Mountains as well as the Bavarian Forest are particularly affected. At the same time it remains very windy with stormy gusts of up to 70 kilometers per hour in some areas. In the south of Bavaria, on the other hand, the sun should come out sometimes.