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"Heavy heavy rain, hail, gusts of wind": Thunderstorms are moving to Bavaria - warning issued

2022-07-21T02:52:59.928Z


"Heavy heavy rain, hail, gusts of wind": Thunderstorms are moving to Bavaria - warning issued Created: 2022-07-21 04:46 By: Felix Herz The heat wave ends for the time being – with quite a bang. According to the weather service, it will be really uncomfortable in Bavaria from the afternoon, including heavy rain and hail. Update July 20, 9:39 p.m .: Here we go. In Bavaria, thunderstorms are brew


"Heavy heavy rain, hail, gusts of wind": Thunderstorms are moving to Bavaria - warning issued

Created: 2022-07-21 04:46

By: Felix Herz

The heat wave ends for the time being – with quite a bang.

According to the weather service, it will be really uncomfortable in Bavaria from the afternoon, including heavy rain and hail.

Update July 20, 9:39 p.m .: Here

we go.

In Bavaria, thunderstorms are brewing throughout the extreme west, from Lower Franconia to Allgäu.

The German Weather Service issued a warning: "Thunderstorms are approaching from the south.

There are gusts of wind with speeds of up to 85 km/h and heavy rain with precipitation amounts of up to 25 l/m² per hour and small-grain hail.” The warning is valid until 11 p.m.

Thunderstorms may move further east as the evening progresses.

Update July 20, 6:20 p.m .:

In Munich, the heat is really in the city.

Around 6:30 p.m. in the evening, the thermometer shows temperatures of around 35 degrees.

But the clear blue sky from midday is gone, meanwhile it is hazy and cloudy in the state capital.

The night should be tropical with temperatures of almost 22 degrees - a slight cooling should be ready for showers on Thursday morning.

Weather in Bavaria: DWD warns of thunderstorms - cooling for Munich in sight

Things are very different in parts of the Allgäu at the moment.

The German Weather Service warns of "strong thunderstorms" here: Thunderstorms are approaching from the south.

There are gusts of wind with speeds of up to 80 km/h as well as heavy rain with precipitation amounts of around 15 l/m² per hour and small-grain hail.

The warning is in effect until 7 p.m.

In the course of the evening and night there may be further thunderstorms in parts of Bavaria (see first report).

First report from July 20, 2022

Munich – Temperatures well above 30 degrees in Bavaria for several days in a row.

Summer has been flexing its muscles lately, but now the heatwave is ending with a bang – and it's going from one extreme to the next.

After the forecasts had increased over the last few days that it could get uncomfortable towards the end of the week, the official "preliminary information about severe weather" from the German Weather Service (DWD) is now coming.

And yes - it bangs.

Weather in Bavaria before an extreme change: severe weather warning from the DWD

On Wednesday, July 20, the sun is still shining from a bright blue sky during the day.

With peak values ​​of well over 30 degrees, people in Bavaria continue to sweat during the heat wave.

But from the southwest, over France and Switzerland, storms are brewing.

And they have it all.

Storms are brewing over Augsburg on a summer evening - see the current warning map from the German Weather Service (symbol image).

© Alexander Rochau / IMAGO / Screenshot German Weather Service / Mercury collage

Although there is still a warning of extreme heat from the DWD in most of Bavaria on Wednesday, in the south-west of the Free State a new color is spreading on the warning map of the weather service: The red-hatched lines show: A warning of “severe weather” applies here Thunderstorm”, initially for Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 12 a.m. around the Allgäu, in Swabia and Franconia.

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Severe weather warning in Bavaria: heavy rain, hail, gusts of wind

Literally, the German weather service speaks of "heavy heavy rain, hail up to 3 centimeters in size and isolated heavy gusts of wind up to 100 km/h".

The further the evening progresses, the more dangerous it will be.

Because according to the DWD, the storms then grow together and there is “the risk of heavy rain of around 40 l/sqm in one hour”.

Overnight on Thursday, July 21, the severe storms then spread in a north-easterly direction.

According to the DWD, the focus is on Swabia and Franconia.

Furthermore, the weather service still refers to the very high risk of forest fires in Bavaria.

(fhz)

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