weather forecast
Temperatures rise again to 34 degrees – far too dry in the west
No more green left from the green area in Cologne: The drought summer has dried out parks and meadows in many places.
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Except for a few patches of cloud and little precipitation, the weather will be hot and dry for the coming week. Too dry. In some places, such as Würzburg, no rain fell at all in August.
Take a deep breath at the beginning of the week – then the temperatures in Germany will climb again in many places to midsummer 26 to 34 degrees. “After the low Karin gave parts of Germany rain, sometimes in large quantities, Hoch Piet is now back in pole position,” said meteorologist Lars Kirchhübel from the German Weather Service in Offenbach on Sunday. The drought, especially in western Germany, continues with no prospect of relief.
The offshoot of the Azores high Piet will determine the weather in large parts of western and central Europe in the next few days, said the weather expert. “However, in Germany there is always a scramble in the peripheral areas.” Atlantic lows like Lavinia attempted to push their foothills towards the mainland between Iceland and Norway. In most cases, however, only the north-west of Germany and the coastal regions would be touched.
Weather remains dry
From the Oder and Neisse to the Ore Mountains and in south-eastern Bavaria, however, thicker cloud fields and less precipitation must be expected. A high-reaching low over the Balkan region is responsible for this. Short showers are also possible in the Black Forest. “In the rest of the country, Hoch Piet can largely assert itself, although he is shifting his focus to Denmark for the new week,” emphasized the meteorologist.
It stays too dry. According to the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, August overall – apart from a few areas in eastern Germany – will be far too dry compared to the long-term average. The deviations are particularly clear in the west and south.
Black Forest, High Rhine and the Allgäu up to the Bavarian Forest would probably not have any major problems due to the high amounts of rain in the past few days. “A look at Rhineland-Palatinate, the southern half of Hesse, the western half of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Franconia shows a different picture,” said Kirchhübel. In the past 30 days, only about ten percent of the usual rainfall has fallen there in some places. “At individual stations, no precipitation at all was measured in August.” For example in Würzburg.