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After a severe storm: clean-up work in Schalchen, Upper Austria
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The bad weather front moved from west to east across Switzerland and Austria until Monday night: severe storms over the Alps have led to flooding and storm damage.
In the Salzburg region, several trees fell on the Tauernautobahn, as the Austrian broadcaster ORF reported online.
The clearance work was made more difficult by heavy travel.
In addition, two tunnels on this route had to be closed due to power failures.
Fire brigades reported hundreds of operations.
The winds blew off roofs and flooded streets and basements.
In Upper Austria, where the fire brigade had 800 calls, according to ORF, up to 30,000 households were now without electricity.
No injuries were initially reported from Austria – on the other hand, three cases from Switzerland in the canton of Valais due to storms.
Two people were hit by a flying tent, the canton police reported.
With wind speeds of up to 132 kilometers per hour, hailstorms and heavy rain, buildings were also damaged in Switzerland.
Whitsun weather: hail in the Allgäu
Storms also repeatedly swept across the south of Germany on the Pentecost weekend.
There was a special picture in the Allgäu: The hail was so thick in places in the Lindau district that the sight resembled a snowy winter landscape.
Residents shoved the icy snow aside with snow shovels, even a wheel loader was in use and piled the hail meters high.
In many places, the storm caused damage such as falling roof tiles, lightning strikes or flooded basements.
In Biessenhofen, a car got stuck in a full underpass.
The occupants were freed unharmed.
In Immenstadt, the gondolas of the Mittagbahn stopped due to the storm and four people were freed.
In Memmingen, the "Ikarus" music festival was briefly interrupted in the afternoon, and the guests were asked not to go to their tents but to their cars.
Trees crashed into cars several times in Bavaria, nobody was injured.
In Aschbach in Rhineland-Palatinate, a storm on Pentecost Sunday damaged the roofs of around 20 houses, and no one was injured here either.
In Hesse, storms caused numerous operations, especially in Darmstadt and the Darmstadt-Dieburg district.
A lightning strike caused several pumps at a sewage pumping station to fail, according to the Darmstadt fire brigade.
The water masses could not be drained into the sewage system, various cellars and apartments were filled up to knee height.
This is what the weather will be like in the coming days
The weather in Germany in the week after Pentecost will remain changeable - it will not be particularly warm and heavy thunderstorms are not to be expected.
"So it's a week to take a deep breath before the proportion of sunshine increases significantly again at the weekend," said a meteorologist from the German Weather Service (DWD) on Monday in Offenbach.
Whit Monday ends with heavy clouds and rain in the northwest and a mix of sun and clouds and isolated thunderstorms in the rest of the country.
"In the new week, low-pressure areas will determine our weather," said the DWD expert.
It will be unstable, but there is no longer a risk of storms.
Only in the south does there fall some long-lasting rain over the course of the week, which can lead to continuous or heavy rain and thunderstorms in the south-east and west, especially on the edge of the Alps.
On Tuesday the sky will remain mostly cloudy and there will also be a few showers in the north-west and western low mountain range.
»The maximum values during the day are rarely above 25 degrees.
At night, the temperature usually drops below 15 degrees, "said the meteorologist.
On Wednesday, people in the east can look forward to longer periods of sunshine.
According to the DWD, the cloud cover is thicker in the west and shower-like precipitation is to be expected.
Isolated thunderstorms with heavy rain are also possible again.
Away from the thunderstorms, light winds will blow from west to south-west.
At the end of the week, however, the DWD weather expert expects summer temperatures above 25 degrees, especially in the middle and in the south.
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