It's hot - so hot that the German Weather Service has issued a heat and forest fire warning in parts of Bavaria.
This also applies to Munich.
Update from June 17, 2 p.m.:
The thermometer in Bavaria is rising and rising.
In the meantime, the German Weather Service (DWD) has issued a clear heat warning for the state capital Munich.
It is valid tomorrow, Friday, between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.
During this period, heat must officially be expected.
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In Munich, people either have to cool off on Friday or stay inside.
Because it gets extremely hot there.
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“A high level of heat exposure is expected up to a height of 600 meters,” writes the DWD.
In the case of Munich, this means in concrete terms: "Due to the reduced nightly cooling, additional pollution is to be expected, especially in the densely built-up urban area of Munich."
Weather in Bavaria: Hot peaks since 1881 in Germany
First report from June 17, 11.41 a.m .:
Munich - The
weather high
Yona makes people all over Germany sweat. The thermometer even reached or reached peak values of up to 40 degrees Celsius this June - especially in eastern Germany. That is a new high point in many years. "Since 1881 there has never been 40 degrees in June in Germany," says weather expert Dominik Jung from
qmet.de.
In Bavaria the temperatures didn't rise that high, but it was still quite hot.
For example in the Middle Franconian metropolis of Nuremberg *.
Here the predictions showed a value of 32 degrees Celsius.
One of the top values for all of Bavaria.
The
German Weather Service (DWD)
has now even issued a heat warning.
Lower Franconia is particularly affected.
There the thermometer reached up to 36 degrees Celsius today (June 17th).
In the other parts of Bavaria, as in the higher Alpine foothills, there are 29 degrees Celsius.
Weather in Bavaria: Risk of forest fire - Minister Kaniber appeals to the people
The heat is of course also a danger to nature.
According to the
DWD
, there has been a particularly high risk of forest fires in northern and eastern Bavarian areas since Thursday.
Be careful when walking in the forest.
For this reason, the Bavarian Forest Minister Michaela Kaniber (CSU) appealed to the people in the Free State not to smoke in the forest and to refrain from barbecuing and open fires nearby, as the
German Press Agency
reports.
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The high temperatures can lead to forest fires in a few areas in Bavaria.
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Whether a forest fire will actually occur can be determined from various factors, for example how dry the forest floor is and how quickly the wind would make a possible fire bigger.
In addition, other important factors are the humidity, wind speed, precipitation, temperature and solar radiation, said Christopher Böttcher, forest fire expert at
DWD
to the
dpa.
Weather in Bavaria: Air observers check whether there is a fire
To be on the safe side, air observers from the fire brigade or the administration in Lower Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate climb into planes to check from above whether there is a fire.
The districts announced on Wednesday.
Such flights are not uncommon, the air observers were also on the road a few times last year, said a spokeswoman for the government of Lower Bavaria.
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