Bavaria was by far the wettest federal state in Germany in the summer of 2021. From June to August there was an average of 415 liters per square meter in the Free State – 101 liters more than the long-term average between 1961 and 1990, as the German Weather Service (DWD) announced in Offenbach on Monday. Most of the precipitation fell on the immediate edge of the Alps, sometimes more than 700 liters per square meter. The sometimes violent storms in summer ended fatally for several people: in mid-July, floods and landslides wreaked havoc in places like Berchtesgaden, Schönau am Königssee or Ramsau, and two people died. In mid-August, after a violent thunderstorm in the Höllentalklamm on the Zugspitze, two people were swept away by a tidal wave. A woman died, a man was initially still missing. Bavaria was therefore also the second coolest federal state in the republic with an average temperature of 17.6 degrees in summer. However, the Free State was 1.8 degrees above the long-term average.