All of Germany will feel the heavy storm Hendrik.
Road traffic obstruction and storm surges are likely.
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In many places in Germany, a storm will cause uncomfortable weather from Thursday.
The DWD reported on Wednesday of the first storm and hurricane gusts.
(see update from October 20, 4:36 p.m.)
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Update from October 20, 10:50 p.m
.: The German Weather Service has updated its warnings for the coming night again - the storm is approaching across the English Channel.
In the second half of the night, gusts of wind reached west of Germany at around 80 kilometers per hour.
Where there are rain showers in addition to the storms, the gusts can be particularly violent.
Hurricane-like gusts cannot be ruled out either - especially in the western mountains.
Storm in Germany: hurricane low reaches the Brocken - gusts of wind also on the coast
Update from October 20, 7:28 p.m.: Squalls
on the
Kahler
Asten, hurricane-like gusts on the Brocken: On Wednesday evening, the first autumn storm arrived in the higher elevations of Germany as forecast.
The German Weather Service is currently also observing squalls at the lighthouse in Kiel or on Heligoland.
Gusts of wind hit Kiel, Bremen, Cuxhaven and the Feldberg in the Black Forest.
Rain hits parts of the east of Germany as well as the center around Thuringia and the north of Bavaria.
Storm in Germany: German weather service tightened the warnings again
Update from October 20, 4:36 p.m
.: The German Weather Service tightened its warnings again:
Storm-like gale gusts
are now expected for the Brocken.
The low mountain ranges as well as the German Bight and northern Schleswig-Holstein are threatened by gusts of wind.
The Black Forest should hit continuous rain in the evening.
From Thursday night there should be extreme hurricane gusts on the Brocken as well as hurricane-like gusts in the high altitudes of the low mountain ranges.
Heavy squalls are possible throughout Germany.
Hurricane in Germany: Level four severe weather warnings for the Harz mountainous region
Update from October 20, 3 p.m.:
In the meantime, a warning of level four (purple) applies to the first district in Germany.
For the Harz-Bergland district, the DWD is currently warning of extreme storms.
For the rest of Germany, the level two warning (orange) remains up-to-date in many places.
In individual areas, the DWD warns of storms with level three (red).
Areas in Bavaria, Thuringia, Baden-Württemberg and Saxony, among others, are affected by the warning.
In NRW, a meteorologist is now warning of the storms.
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A DWD level 4 warning has now been published for the first district.
© Screenshot DWD
Storm over Germany: DWD warns of fallen trees and traffic obstructions
Update from October 20, 1 p.m.:
Heavy squalls, plus heavy showers and thunderstorms - according to the DWD forecast, it will be really uncomfortable this Thursday. From the second half of the night from Wednesday to Thursday, the storm field of a low will spread to Germany from the west, said the DWD in Offenbach. The DWD meteorologist Tobias Reinartz said on Wednesday that traffic obstructions due to fallen trees must be expected.
The meteorologists predict storm gusts and heavy gusts of between 70 and 90 kilometers per hour or more - for high mountain areas even heavy gusts to gale force gusts of up to 110 kilometers per hour.
Hurricane gusts of up to 120 kilometers per hour are possible on exposed peaks such as the Brocken, the Feldberg in the Black Forest or the Fichtelberg.
Accordingly, it blows a little weaker in the southeast at 55 to 75 kilometers per hour.
There can also be showers and thunderstorms.
Red alert for over 30 districts in Germany: South badly affected - extreme hurricane gusts feared
Update from October 20, 2021, 11.30 a.m.:
The German Weather Service is currently warning in many places with warning level 2 of striking weather. Hurricane gusts and storms must currently be expected on the Brocken, with gusts of wind in the low mountain ranges, in the German Bight and in northern Schleswig-Holstein. Continuous rain is expected in the Black Forest from the evening onwards. In the night to Thursday then extreme hurricane gusts on the Brocken, as well as hurricane gusts in the low mountain ranges above 600 meters.
As the DWD makes clear in its current warning card, level three before storms already applies to individual districts - i.e. red. Affected are, among others, the Hochsauerland district in North Rhine-Westphalia, in Hesse the districts Waldeck-Frankenberg and Fulda, in Bavaria the districts Deggendorf, Freyung -Grafenau, Regen, Straubing-Bogen and the city of Straubing, Cham, Schwandorf, the district and city of Hof, the district and city of Bayreuth, the Wunsiedel district and the Tirschenreuth district. In Baden-Württemberg, the districts of Freudenstadt, Emmendingen, Lörrach, Waldshut, the Ortenau district and the city of Freiburg are affected. Individual districts in Thuringia are also affected by the warning. These include: the district of Gotha, Ilm district, Hildburghausen, Sonneberg, Saalfeld-Rudolstadt and the city of Suhl. In Saxony are currently the Vogtlandkreis, the Erzgebirgskreis,the mountainous region and the mountainous region of the west of the Elbe are colored red.
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The DWD is currently warning of “striking weather” in many places.
© Screenshot DWD
Update from October 20, 2021, 9:50 a.m.:
All of Germany has to be prepared for gusts of wind from Thursday, in the Harz gusts are even expected on Wednesday.
As a spokesman for the German Weather Service said, squalls were to be expected on Wednesday, especially in higher altitudes.
Hurricane gusts are also expected on the Brocken in the Harz Mountains.
The strong south-westerly current will also ensure stormy weather in the Harz during the day, and the storm is expected to continue on Thursday.
Hurricane should hit Germany on Thursday more than expected - even a storm surge threatens
Original
report
from October 19, 2021:
Munich - Meteorologist Dominik Jung from the weather
portal wetter.net described
the current October week (October 18 to 22)
as the “autumn roller coaster
week”.
High temperatures of up to 25 degrees, the first wet snowflakes, a drop in temperature - and now an impending storm surge.
The heavy storm Hendrik will probably hit Germany harder than expected.
Storm depression Hendrik: hurricane gusts in Germany
Thursday (October 21, 2021) will quickly become very uncomfortable due to the storm Hendrik.
"Very strong winds will already occur in rush hour traffic," said meteorologist Jan Schenk from
The
Weather Channel Germany
about the weather in western Germany.
The storm will have reached the entire south by 9 a.m. and the east by 12 p.m.
"The strongest gusts of wind are predicted here, maybe also in the south, that is not yet entirely certain," said Schenk.
Hurricane gusts of up to 120 km / h can occur in the lowlands.
At an altitude of 600 meters, the wind force is up to 130 km / h.
The hurricane gusts occur together with rain, so showers and thunderstorms are also added.
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Storms all over Germany: Storm depression Hendrik strikes.
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While the north from Flensburg to Hanover is relatively spared with gusts of up to 80 km / h, Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Brandenburg and Berlin are at great risk from the storm.
The storm will not wane until Thursday evening.
Road closures due to fallen trees must be expected, and there may also be restrictions in rail traffic.
Entering forests should also be avoided due to the weather.
Storm surge in the north: "Please be careful"
On the North Sea coast there is even a risk of storm surge on Thursday.
Although there are less high wind speeds in the north than in the rest of Germany, the wind direction will lead to one or more storm surges on Thursday and Friday, but a severe storm surge is not to be feared.
Meteorologist Schenk urges careful observation of the weather: “The forecasts can still change.
A few hours in advance it is often not entirely clear where the storm will occur.
So please be careful. ”
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