DWD map shows: First thunderstorms are moving over Germany: Increased risk of severe weather in several regions

Created: 05/16/2022, 09:58

By: Jennifer Lanzinger

In the morning the first thunderstorms move over Germany.

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A thunderstorm rolls over Germany, a DWD map shows the first local thunderstorms in the morning.

Heavy rain and some hail are to be expected on Monday.

Munich – The summer has finally shown its beautiful side, as the warm weather is interrupted by showers and thunderstorms.

A low thunderstorm brings cooling and bad weather at the beginning of the week, a large part of the country then has to be prepared for an increased risk of severe weather.

DWD map shows: First thunderstorms are moving over Germany: Increased risk of severe weather in several regions

Parts of Switzerland and France were already struggling with showers on Monday night, and the storm is expected to move on to Germany in the morning.

The German weather service had predicted this on Sunday.

In the course of Monday, the thunderstorms over Germany should then increase significantly.

By the evening, the south-west half of the country was particularly affected, i.e. “roughly speaking, all regions west of the Weser and parts of Bavaria and Thuringia,” said a meteorologist from the DWD.

On the DWD homepage you can read, among other things: "A thunderstorm disturbance crosses the west and south of Germany today and comes to a standstill near the Elbe during the night".

Accordingly, hail must also be expected in isolated cases.

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There is a risk of storms in some areas, and hail and gusts of wind could also occur occasionally.

However, the DWD emphasized that not every thunderstorm leads to a storm.

"But where the thunderstorms form, local flooding and flooded basements or underpasses must be expected," said the meteorologist.

According to the DWD, temperatures from the Oder to Schleswig-Holstein rise to 19 to 24 degrees, in the rest of the country the maximum values ​​are 23 to 28 degrees.

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In the coming days, the weather should settle back down to the summer level, but according to the DWD, it could still rain in places by Tuesday afternoon.

Otherwise, according to the DWD, there is mainly a mix of sun, dense clouds and individual showers with maximum values ​​between 19 and 28 degrees.

It will be even friendlier on Wednesday.

Plenty of sun with temperatures between 25 and 30 degrees are to be expected.

"Only east of the Elbe is it a little less warm at 20 to 24 degrees," said the DWD meteorologist.