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Thunderstorm weekend continues
First of all, jamand doesn’t want to swim here so quickly: A mudslide has devastated the outdoor pool in Gersdorf. photo
© Maxim Schaller/Blaulichtreport&Stormchasing/dpa
He was eagerly awaited, but the heavy rain caused problems in many places at the start of the weekend. Several villages and roads were flooded by mud pouring from adjacent fields.
After a stormy start to the weekend, Saturday brought rain and thunderstorms again, especially in eastern and southern Germany. While a wedge with drier and cooler air is already noticeable in the west and north-west, the rest of the country has warm, humid air, according to the German Weather Service (DWD) in the afternoon. However, the probability of extreme amounts of rain is lower than the day before.
On Friday and on the night of Saturday, a number of cellars across Germany were full, lightning struck, cars began to slide on wet roads. In Gersdorf, Saxony, a mudslide devastated an outdoor pool. Gardens and streets were also washed over by mud that washed away from surrounding fields during a storm on Saturday night. In the district of Eichsfeld in Thuringia, the village of Jützenbach was flooded by a reddish mudslide. Here, too, earth had been washed onto the street from an adjacent field, and the through road had to be closed.
State of emergency in Berlin
In Berlin, the state of emergency weather was declared for about three hours on Friday evening in order to be able to mobilize sufficient forces in an emergency. During this time there were almost 80 weather-related operations, said a spokesman. Most of the time, basements had to be pumped out. Storm damage such as broken branches, on the other hand, was limited. The punk band Die Ärzte and rapper Marteria canceled concerts planned for the evening, and Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke Büdenbender ended the community festival for volunteers early to be on the safe side.
Regions in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria were also affected by thunderstorms and heavy rain on Friday and Saturday. In Weingarten near Karlsruhe, a warehouse caught fire after a lightning strike, according to the fire brigade. No one was injured, and there was damage in the millions. Due to water masses and debris on the road, the Pforzheim-Ost junction of the A8 motorway in the direction of Stuttgart was closed on Friday evening. A lightning strike destroyed a boat on Lake Zierker in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
According to the DWD forecast, the weather should be calmer again at the start of the week. On Monday it will be cloudy to heavily overcast in the northern half with maximum values of 19 to 23 degrees, in the southern half sunny and mostly dry with maximum values between 24 and 29 degrees.