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Violent storms in Bavaria: lightning strikes set fire to home of pregnant woman - DWD with sobering prospects

2020-06-16T06:05:17.326Z


After a wonderful summer day, the bad awakening came in the late evening and Sunday night: violent storms in Bavaria. 


After a wonderful summer day, the bad awakening came in the late evening and Sunday night: violent storms in Bavaria. 

  • It was a restless night in large parts of Bavaria. 
  • Violent storms reached the Free State late Saturday evening. 
  • There are currently still strong thunderstorms in Franconia and Bavarian Swabia. 
  • There are many more exciting stories from Bavaria and the regions in our app.

Update June 15, 6:36 am:  Heavy rain has led to numerous fire and police operations in parts of Upper Franconia. Until the night of Monday, the police in Bayreuth registered around 75 emergency calls for cellars full of water, fallen trees and accidents. Accidents occurred on Highway 9 due to the heavy rain  , in which several people were slightly injured, a police spokesman said.

Especially the urban area of ​​Bayreuth was hit by heavy rain. The Bayreuth fire brigade said it had to cope with around 100 forces, mainly due to flooded roads and full basements.

The Bavarian State Office for the Environment announced that in the north and east of Bavaria, flood levels were exceeded in the Upper Main region at night . Accordingly, smaller areas were flooded.

Violent storms in the Free State: 100 missions in just two hours in Nuremberg

In the rest of the Free State, there was sometimes heavy and raining on Sunday night. Fire brigades and police were temporarily in constant use. In Nuremberg , the fire department reported more than 100 operations within two hours because of the storm . Lightning struck a building and two other apartments . In addition, several basements were full. In Erlangen there was damage to the town hall , which is why the authority should remain closed on Monday.

Storm damaged city hall in Erlangen: Authority remains closed

There were more than 70 fire service operations in the Aschaffenburg district . "In the Haibach community, a house was under water up to the ground floor," said the fire brigade. The resident came to the hospital injured . Numerous cellars were full. Several streets were flooded with mud.

A residential building burned in Swabia on Sunday night . " Lightning strikes as a cause of fire cannot be excluded," said a police spokesman. The 30-year-old pregnant housemaker escaped unharmed outdoors. As a precaution, she was taken to the hospital. The police estimated the damage at more than 100,000 euros.

The German Weather Service (DWD) made no hope of sun in the coming days. To start of the week it is, according to DWD cloudy, remain wet and gray: "On Monday dense rain clouds on Tuesday of Lower Franconia until after Südbayern light rain." Local are during the week continued flooding possible.

The DWD does not expect temperatures to exceed 20 degrees. The thermometer could only show 25 degrees on the Main. On the edge of the Alps, a fresh ten degrees are possible on individual days, sometimes only up to eight degrees at night.

Violent storms in Bavaria: disaster declared - new warning of severe thunderstorms

Update from June 14, 10:52 p.m .: The weather situation remained tense on Sunday evening. Local thunderstorms with heavy rain caused full basements and flooded streets. As  News5 reports, the region around Upper Franconia in particularBayreuth  affected. In the districts of Seulbitz and St. Johannis, streets were flooded, and cellars were also under water.

In Bindlach (district of Bayreuth) a small stream threatens to flood several gardens and houses. The fire department pumps out the water and tries to keep the water level low. Nearby Crottendorf also fights against the floods. The town center is knee-deep under water. In addition, the railway line in this area had to be closed because it is unclear whether the railway embankment was washed under.

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Thunderstorms caused flooded streets and crowded cellars on Sunday evening.

© NEWS5 / Fricke

Bavaria weather: DWD warns of heavy rain and heavy thunderstorms

Update from 4.48 p.m .:  An official warning from the German Weather Service (DWD) currently applies to northern Bavaria. According to this, heavy rain occurs until 6.30 p.m. Rainfalls between 15 liters per square meter and 25 liters per square meter per hour are expected. Coburg, Haßberge, Bamberg, Forchheim and Amberg-Sulzbach are among those affected. 

But there is already another warning from the DWD. Heavy thunderstorms are threatening in the Free State . In addition to the areas already mentioned, the warning applies to the following groups: Miltenberg, Aschaffenburg, Main-Spessart, Würzburg, Kitzingen, Neustadt an der Aisch, Schweinfurt, Bad Kissingen, Rhön-Grabfeld, Erlangen-Höchstadt, Fürth, Lichtenfels, Kronach, Kulmbach , Hof, Wunsiedel, Tirschenreuth, Neustadt an der Waldnaab, Amberg-Sulzbach, Schwandorf and Cham. The warning has been in effect from Sunday (June 14) at 12 p.m. to Monday (June 15) at 7 a.m.

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The German Weather Service warns of severe thunderstorms in Bavaria.

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The DWD said: “During the day, severe thunderstorms develop again. These are then accompanied by heavy heavy rain between 25 and 40 liters per square meter within an hour, storm gusts between 65 and 85 km / h (Bft 8 to 9) and mostly small-grain hail. Locally limited and with a low probability, there can also be extremely heavy heavy rain of over 40 liters per square meter within an hour or over 60 liters per square meter within several hours. " but probably not completely to a halt. Sometimes there is also a transition in predominantly unstable heavy rain. "

The Fürstenfeldbruck district was largely spared the storm front that swept across Bavaria. The fire departments only had to deploy for one mission. *

The storm after the warm, sunny Saturday was fierce, but the damage it caused was limited: the fire services in the Starnberg district had to move out six times during the night to Sunday. *

Violent storms in Bavaria - disaster declared: hikers are stuck

Update from 3:25 p.m .: After the severe storm at the weekend, helicopters in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district brought hikers down into the valley. District Administrator Anton Speer announced the disaster on Sunday (June 14). According to the information, a good 60 hikers are stuck in the Höllentalangerhütte , including children. You cannot walk back into the valley because of damaged bridges. The people are flown out by helicopter. According to a spokesman for the mountain rescue service, there are no injuries.

The hikers would have stayed at the hut. During the night, a good 200 residents of the Grainau community had already been brought to safety as a precaution after a brook burst its banks and a mud had cleared.

Severe weather in Bavaria: Beuerberg in the Wolfsratshausen district hit particularly hard

Update from 11.47 a.m .:  The severe storms that hit Bavaria on Saturday (June 13th) caused severe damage in some places. An agricultural estate was particularly badly affected in the small village of Beuerberg (Wolfratshausen district). After a lightning strike, a major fire developed in a hay warehouse.

Update from June 14, 2020, 7.40 a.m .: The violent storms, which raged on Saturday in northeastern Germany in particular, reached the Free State in the evening and at night on Sunday. As the Bayerischer Rundfunk reports, 200 people had to leave their homes in Grainau (Garmisch-Partenkirchen district) when the Hammersbach burst its banks after heavy rainfall and the masses of water coming from the mountains. They were evacuated by the fire department. There were around 100 operations in Nuremberg, including numerous flooded cellars that had to be pumped out. 

Currently, weather warnings from the German Weather Service against heavy thunderstorms and heavy heavy rain still apply between Nördlingen and above Nuremberg. 

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Severe weather in Bavaria on Saturday: hail up to three centimeters possible

Update from June 13, 2020, 3:57 p.m .: "At least until Monday a lot of rain is expected, especially in the southwest of Bavaria," said an expert from the DWD on Saturday. The weather situation has " severe weather potential ."

The local precipitation could lead to flooding . According to the warning report for the Free State, up to 40 liters of rain per square meter could occasionally fall in a short time. The wind blows near storms with gusts of up to 90 kilometers per hour.

Car owners should keep an eye on the announced hail : in some cases, a grain size of up to three centimeters in diameter is possible, as the DWD announced in advance information for all government districts. According to the information, the hail probability is higher in Upper Franconia than in Lower Bavaria.

Weather change in Bavaria: storms approaching

Update from June 13th, 11:21 pm:

 On Saturday it will stay warm in Bavaria for the time being with temperatures between 23 and 29 degrees. But during the day, the DWD meteorologists announce a violent change of weather. The first thunderstorms form in the course of the afternoon, which spread further during the night and can be drastic. The DWD warns of the risk of severe weather due to heavy heavy rain.

Weather in Bavaria: Temperature drop on Sunday

While the thunderstorms in the north of Bavaria gradually subside on Sunday night, the storms in the south are just beginning, often with heavy rain. The temperatures drop to 17 degrees in the main triangle and 11 degrees on the edge of the Alps.

Weather in Bavaria: temperature explosion - but the weather service warns

Update from June 12, 7:07 am: The weekend in Bavaria starts in summer. After that, however, it becomes rainy and stormy again. As the German Weather Service (DWD) announced, after the sunny and dry Friday, it can get up to 30 degrees warm on Saturday. In the northeast of Bavaria, however, there should be strong thunderstorms. In the late afternoon, the meteorologists also expect heavy rains in the rest of the Free State. It cools down significantly on Sunday. At temperatures between 17 and 24 degrees it remains rainy with individual thunderstorms.

The north of Bavaria in particular could be particularly hard hit on Saturday, June 16.

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Update from June 11, 10.50 a.m .:  The last few days in Bavaria were characterized by rain and cold - even the front of the front was largely gray in the Free State. Nevertheless, there are now positive weather prospects: According to the German Weather Service, the sun should show itself more during the day . Only in the Alps are there strong thunderstorms. 

On Friday (June 12th) it will finally be summer. Maximum values ​​of up to 28 degrees and sunshine are expected. On Saturday (June 13th), the 30-degree mark could be broken - even if the first clouds are already to come up. Again thunderstorms the temperatures drop again on Sunday (June 14th).

Weather in Bavaria: Snow on Bavaria's mountain on Wednesday - then suddenly summer comes

Update from 12.18 p.m .: Thunderstorms likely today in the south, especially in the afternoon and evening . A low pressure area above northern Italy continues and presses humid air to Bavaria, according to the meteorologists. Local heavy rain between 15 and 25 liters per square meter in one hour, gusts up to 60 km / h and small-grain hail.

Weather in Bavaria: Evil low from Italy brings dirty weather - then comes the midsummer

Update from June 10th, 7:01 am : Sleeping twice more, then it's here, midsummer. On Friday, according to the DWD, it will be up to 28 degrees in some parts of Bavaria. There are also bright blue skies with plenty of sun. Until then, however, it will remain uncomfortably cold with a maximum of 13 degrees on the edge of the Alps. 

In addition, some thunderstorms are expected in the southeast. 

The Thursday shows milder with more sun gaps in 16 to 23 degrees.

Update from June 9, 4:01 pm: The cause of the bad June weather in Bavaria actually comes from Italy . It may sound like late revenge for the Söder tourism strategy, which is giving Bavaria a new mass tourism phenomenon, but it is actually so. A nasty low currently hangs over Genoa, which pumps the humid air over the Alps to Bavaria, which evokes bad memories, for example of the century flood at Tegernsee 2013.

Weather in Bavaria for Wednesday (June 10th): Snow again on the Zugspitze

That is why snow falls over Bavaria in June - if only on the Zugspitze at minus 2 degrees. Nevertheless, the summit weather is emblematic of Wednesday, which consists of rain, cold and wet in Bavaria. With a maximum of 19 degrees in the Würzburg area and 13 degrees, exactly, on the Alps, where the temperature drops to 7 degrees at night.

A so-called high-over-low situation brings summer to the end of the week. The air pressure in southern Europe is rather low, with a high-pressure area over Scandinavia. In between, warm but humid air flows to Germany, where numerous thunderstorms form. pic.twitter.com/HlfvjEtGny

- DWD (@DWD_presse) June 8, 2020

A bit friendlier on Thursday. Something. Still a lot of showers, some thunderstorms in the Alps, still cool, but a little warmer and sunnier than the past few days. Well, it's not that difficult now either.

Bavaria weather change on Friday: Suddenly 27 degrees and full sun

For this, Friday announces a change of weather - and a dramatic one. 27 degrees above Munich and 16 hours of sunshine . Anticipation is known to be the greatest joy.

Update, June 8, 2:01 p.m .: Nothing helps. The weather outlook in Bavaria remains very modest on Monday (June 8th) . Only in the far north of Bavaria can the weather be somewhat friendly. Currently, the sun breaks through in cool temperatures, but only to be replaced on Tuesday by large rain fronts that move across Bavaria. On the Zugspitze it can snow on Tuesday evenings at night. And that's how it stays for the time being.

At the edge of the Alps it remains at a maximum temperature of 13 degrees, in the night it becomes single digits in many places. Only in Lower Franconia can the thermometer break the 20-degree mark every now and then. Gloomy prospects, which will probably only get a little brighter for Friday in view of the long-term forecast.

Weather in Bavaria: Snow in June - forecast for a new week should disappoint many

Update, June 7, 9:50 p.m .: The past week was uncomfortable all over Bavaria . In the Allgäu region in particular, there were heavy showers almost all of Sunday. Even a look at the start of the week does not promise much summer : According to the German Weather Service (DWD), the Free State only reaches maximum temperatures of 19 degrees in Bamberg. At the Zugspitze, however, it should snow at 0 degrees

The south is not yet spared: it should always get wet from the Upper Palatinate to the Allgäu. Up to and including Thursday, the picture in the Free State does not change significantly - only the rain showers will spread to all parts of the Free State over the next few days - with constant cool temperatures of 14 degrees.

Even if the outdoor pools open this week - real bathing weather does not want to come up in Bavaria yet.

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Snow on the Zugspitze (archive picture).

© dpa / Sven Hoppe

Official weather warning for Bavaria: heavy rain and continuous rain in several counties

Update, June 7, 12.33 p.m .: The German Weather Service has issued an official warning of continuous rain  and heavy rain for several counties in Bavaria. The districts of Lindau, Oberallgäu, Unterallgäu and Ostallgäu are affected, that is: the entire Allgäu. The weather service expects continuous rain of up to 30 liters per square meter on the one hand, otherwise heavy rain with up to 20 liters / sqm can occur in a short time.

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The German Weather Service has issued a storm warning for Bavaria against heavy rain.

© DWD

Weather in Bavaria on Sunday (June 7th): A lot of rain and cold

Update from June 7th, 7:33 am: After several strong thunderstorms swept across Bavaria, especially southern Bavaria, on Saturday, the long-announced cold front is coming. Only in the extreme northwest of Bavaria, in Lower Franconia, does it look friendlier. In the Würzburg area, the sun can also be seen. 

To the southeast of it, dark rain clouds move over Bavaria on Sunday. In the Alps, especially in the Allgäu, the German weather service does not rule out heavy rain with quantities of around 30 l / sqm in the next 12 hours. A maximum of 12 degrees can be expected in the south of Bavaria in the dirty weather. In the far north it can reach 19 degrees.

The trend continues on Monday. With friendlier sections in the north and rain in the south. In the night the temperatures become single digits in many places.

Weather in Bavaria on Saturday (June 6th): Thunderstorm over Bavaria

Update from June 6, 2020, 8.29 a.m .:  On Saturday rain showers will move through Bavaria. In the morning it rains in the north, the showers shift to the south during the day, predicts the German Weather Service (DWD). Thunderstorms are possible in the Alps. The temperatures today are between 12 degrees in the Franconian Forest and 21 degrees in the vicinity of the Inn.

A mix of sun, clouds and rain is expected on Sunday. The sun shines more often during the day, especially in Lower Franconia. Local rain showers are possible throughout Bavaria. The daily highs are between 13 degrees in the Allgäu and 19 degrees in the lower Main.

After thunderstorms in Bavaria: weather remains uncomfortable - gusts of wind and heavy rain threaten here

Update from 9.03 a.m .: Thunderstorms swept across the Free State yesterday and even today the German Weather Service (DWD) warns of gusts and heavy rain . This is followed by the meteorologist Dominik Jung from the Q.net weather service told Wetter.com : "The weather situation remains changeable and cool for the time being". From Wednesday onwards, however, it could be significantly warmer in Germany. "Here with us the existing air mass is quite moist and this mixture would bring us very humid days with a high thunderstorm potential . Since there would be hardly any movement in the air mass, the risk of local storms would increase, because the thunderstorms would often be very stationary and could bring torrential rain on the spot, ”Dominik Jung continues.

At the weekend, more precisely on Sunday, the 30-degree mark could be broken in Germany . Bavaria can also look forward to warm temperatures. According to Wetter.com , the thermometer in Munich could climb to 29 degrees on Sunday (June 14) - as well as on Monday. At the beginning of the week, thunderstorms are forecast, which Jung also confirms. Because the air could be "very humid and very susceptible to strong regional thunderstorms".

Bavaria weather: thunderstorms, gusts of wind and heavy rain threaten

Update from June 5, 6:38 a.m .: Thunderstorms swept across the Free State on Thursday yesterday . The German Weather Service (DWD) warned of heavy rain and stormy gusts . Even today it is getting uncomfortable in Bavaria, the DWD reports: "From midday into the first half of the night gusts of 50, in parts of Franconia and Swabia also strong to stormy gusts of 60 km / h from southwest to west." it gets stormy in the second half of the day with gusts of up to 75 km / h, on the highest alpine peaks there are even severe gusts of wind of up to 100 km / h in the night of Saturday .

Thunderstorms are also possible again this Friday: in Franconia evening gusts of up to 85 km / h threaten, heavy rain around 15 l / sqm and small hail are not excluded.

Thunderstorms in Bavaria: Heavy rain and stormy gusts possible in the Free State

Update from June 4, 5.25 p.m .: Currently there are showers of rain in many parts of Bavaria. In some cases there have been strong thunderstorms since the afternoon and until late into the night on Friday , writes the German Weather Service (DWD). Heavy rain is also possible in the Alps. 

Weather in Bavaria: heavy rain with hail and stormy gusts 

In addition to heavy rain with rainfall of up to 20 l / m² per hour, the DWD also warns of hail and stormy gusts at speeds of up to 75 km / h. In some cases, storm-like heavy rain with rainfall of around 30 l / m² cannot be ruled out within a short time. In the night to Friday there is heavy rain locally in the Alps with quantities of 20 to 35 l / m² even outside of thunderstorms. 

Tomorrow, Friday, the weather in Bavaria will be cool, windy, cloudy and rainy again . From Friday noon there will be strong to stormy gusts of wind at up to 60 km / h , especially in Lower and Middle Franconia as well as in Swabia . In exposed areas of the Allgäu, stormy gusts can occur from the southwest at speeds of up to 70 km / h. 

Update from 1.55 p.m .: The German Weather Service (DWD) has predicted thunderstorms for Bavaria from noon on Thursday. These have now reached the Free State . As of 1:55 p.m., the districts of Main-Spessart, the district of Miltenberg and the district and city of Aschaffenburg are affected. There are gusts of wind with speeds around 65 km / h and heavy rain with rainfall around 20 l / m² per hour.

Weather in Bavaria: DWD warns of thunderstorms and heavy rain

Update from June 4, 2020, 10.55 a.m .:  Thursday starts cloudy in large parts of Bavaria. It can already rain in Franconia and Swabia in the morning. The daily highs are between 19 degrees in the Rhön and 25 degrees on the Lower Bavarian Danube. From noon, the German Weather Service (DWD) is expecting individual strong thunderstorms and heavy rain with up to 20 liters per square meter in an hour. Even heavier rain, hail and gusts of wind of up to 75 kilometers per hour cannot be excluded locally, according to the DWD. Especially on the edge of the Alps.

On the night of Friday the thunderstorms subside, but it remains rainy. On Friday it gets colder with 11 to 17 degrees. It mostly remains cloudy, rain showers are possible throughout Bavaria.

Storm front rolls towards Bavaria: Official warning of "strong thunderstorm" with heavy rain and hail

Update, 8:24 pm: In the meantime, the weather in Bavaria has calmed down somewhat. The German Weather Service has also adjusted its warnings. A severe weather warning is currently only valid in a few regions.

Especially in the northwest of the country, i.e. in the Würzburg area, there is still a warning about strong thunderstorms with gusts, heavy rain and hail. 

The DWD also issues the same warning for the region around Nuremberg, east of Passau and around Oberstdorf in the southwest. Otherwise the card shines again in friendly, calm green

Update, 4:11 p.m .: According to the DWD , the center of gravity of the storm front has meanwhile shifted more towards the north. The warning of severe storms currently applies to the area southwest of Zwickau. 

In Bavaria , on the other hand, warning level 2 of the DWD applies, that is, a warning of " strong thunderstorms ". This affects both the northwest of the Free State near Bamberg, Würzburg and Schweinfurt, as well as a wide strip between Nuremberg, Amberg, Ingolstadt and Regensburg as far as Cham and the border with the Czech Republic. The warning also applies to the Alpine region around Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

There are warnings of gusts of wind, heavy rain and small-grain hail. 

Weather in Bavaria: Official storm warning of extreme heavy rain - storm front is moving towards Bavaria

First report from June 3:

Munich - The German Weather Service is currently warning of severe  thunderstorms that are affecting Bavaria and Germany. North of Ulm on the border to Baden-Württemberg , the highest possible warning level was even declared . For the two districts bordering Bavaria and Northern Swabia, warning level four of four possible warning levels apply, with a purple background on the DWD card . You rarely see that.

Weather in Bavaria: Warning of thunderstorms in almost all of Bavaria - Two districts red

The DWD warns of extreme heavy rain, hail, storm and thunderstorms. The weather service expects precipitation amounts of around 50 l / m² per hour, gusts of wind at speeds of up to 85 km / h (24m / s, 47kn, Bft 9) and hail with grain sizes of around 2 cm.

Weather in Bavaria: Thunderstorm front is currently moving to Regensburg via Augsburg

And that's not all: the storm quickly moves past Augsburg to the northeast and towards Regensburg . Warning level three of four therefore applies to the Donau-Ries district north of Augsburg and its neighboring district . There is also an official severe weather warning here. There is heavy heavy rain with rainfall up to 35 l / m² per hour as well as gusts of wind with speeds up to 70 km / h (20m / s, 38kn, Bft 8) and small-grain hail.

Otherwise, we are facing a stormy afternoon. The DWD warns of severe thunderstorms from the Weilheim-Schongau district in southern Upper Bavaria to near Nuremberg in Middle Franconia. All warnings currently apply until around 3 p.m.

The storm front, which is rolling towards Bavaria, which has been so sunny so far, is part of a major change in weather. After three wonderful early summer days, the weather in Bavaria is getting uncomfortable again. On Thursday there will be storms, thunderstorms, rain in many places .

There has been hardly any #recipitation in the past week. However, a lot will come together in the coming week. It will rain especially on and "between" the # coasts and south of the #Donau. The #Natur will be happy! / V pic.twitter.com/H0Vlm0PpuH

- DWD (@DWD_presse) June 3, 2020

Weather in Bavaria: Gloomy prospects for further Pentecost weather

Even worse: the summer temperatures are over. Already on Thursday the temperature drops significantly to below 20 degrees - and in higher altitudes the temperatures even reach single digits again at night. Gloomy prospects for the Pentecost weather - at least until Saturday.

Today's first #Thunderstorm ⛈️. Locally, they can be vigorous with heavy rain and gusts of wind. But it will by no means affect everyone. From tomorrow it will be much cooler. More about the #weather here: https://t.co/eMGsxsgIGc pic.twitter.com/RsGLeA56L1

- wetteronline.de (@WetterOnline) June 3, 2020

First the temperatures in Germany drop, then extremely humid weather followed. This can cause numerous thunderstorms and flash floods.

List of rubric lists: © NEWS5 / Fricke

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