The Mediterranean Sea is warmer than normal due to this year's heat in southern Europe.
That could now lead to severe storms in the region.
Athens / Rome - While the summer in Germany did not really want to assert itself, countries in southern Europe had to contend with a historic heat wave.
In Italy and Greece in particular, devastating forest fires made people difficult.
Drought and temperatures above 40 degrees were the order of the day - even a heat record was broken.
Now the next extreme weather is already looming.
Italy and Greece are threatened with the next extreme weather
This is reported by the news portal
wetter.de
.
According to this, there is a high probability of violent storms occurring in an area from Italy to the southern Balkan countries Albania and Greece to the Black Sea.
The reason for this are so-called super cells.
“There is a low altitude over the central and eastern Mediterranean, which, together with the currently high water temperatures in the Mediterranean, is causing local storms,” explains meteorologist Carlo Pfaff.
The Mediterranean is currently warmer than normal.
Due to the heat wave of the past few weeks, it has heated up extremely.
The large temperature differences between the meanwhile cold air at high altitude and the warm sea now offer good conditions for storms to develop.
Weather in Italy and Greece: floods and landslides possible
According to
wetter.de
, these storms can locally bring heavy rain, hail and squalls with them.
A strip that stretches from central and southern Italy through Albania and Greece to the northern part of the Black Sea is particularly affected.
There could be floods as well as landslides and mudslides in mountainous areas.
Pfaff can temporarily give the all-clear. "On Friday the weather calms down, before the foothills of the cold front Nick ensure that the thunderstorm activity in the area of the northern Adriatic reappears at the weekend," explained the meteorologist. According to experts, deep "Nick" will continue to ensure rainy, cool and inconsistent weather in Germany at the weekend.
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