After warning of "mega heat wave": weather expert grumbles about Lauterbach's panic forecast
Created: 07/17/2022, 06:24
By: Lukas Einkammerer
Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach warns of an alleged "mega heat wave".
However, this forecast does not fit a weather expert at all.
Berlin – Those who have been longingly waiting for summer lately have finally been rewarded.
Because for a few weeks you can once again say: "It's summertime".
The hot season brings almost tropical temperatures and bright blue skies and the great weather should make many people want to have barbecues in the garden or go swimming with friends.
Despite all the joy about the sensational weather, there is now a risk that it could get a little too hot.
In the past few days, highs of around 30 degrees have often been reported and the coming week promises pure heat again in many places.
It almost seems as if we are headed straight into a heat wave.
Lauterbach warns of "mega heat wave": Dramatic forecast on Twitter
Everyone can feel that it is very, very hot at the moment.
According to Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, a real "mega heat wave" could actually be imminent.
On the short message platform Twitter, the SPD politician responded to a concerned weather expert who shared a graph of temperatures for the coming week - which talks about catastrophic highs of 45 and 46 degrees - and was quite concerned.
"We need to start now to protect the elderly and the sick from the mega heat wave," writes Lauterbach, "stocks of fluids, fans, talk about the importance of hydration."
Be available.
This heat wave could cause many deaths.” You don't want to paint the devil on the wall right away, but that really doesn't sound good at all.
"Hot Summer" in the truest sense of the word: Temperatures of up to 40 degrees could be reached next week.
© dpa/Frank Rumpenhorst
Lauterbach warns of "mega heat wave": weather expert rejects forecast
Karl Lauterbach's prognosis sounds dramatic, but fortunately other experts seem to take the situation much less seriously.
"That will not happen," meteorologist Jan Schenk told
Focus Online
.
According to the weather professional, the threatening forecast of temperatures up to 46 degrees should only have been a preliminary model.
"That was an extreme of an extreme."
Above all, however, he points out that the horror scenario was already published on July 9th – a full nine days before the start of the suspected heat wave and actually much too early to be considered reliable.
"If I predict the weather nine days in advance, everyone will show me the bird, because that's not really possible," Schenk makes clear.
It usually takes around 30 to 40 different calculations to correctly predict the weather.
Relying on just one overly dramatic scenario would therefore not be correct.
"He actually fell for a false report," says the weather expert on Karl Lauterbach's forecast of a "mega heat wave".
Lauterbach warns of a "mega heat wave": Despite false reports, up to 40 degrees next week
How warm should it actually be?
It will be really hot at the beginning of the week, according to Jan Schenk maybe even around 40 degrees, but from Thursday it will be colder again.
So there is hardly any talk of a real heat wave.
Anyway, that's good news.
So off into the garden or into the water - because the summer is still kind to us.
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