Scary record on the way: weather maps for Bavaria continue to be dramatic
Created: 08/11/2022 10:16 am
By: Felix Herz
It's the driest summer since 1881 - and there's really no end in sight.
When will the longed-for cool down come?
The experts are cautious.
Munich - "The high Oscar is now omnipresent," explains Dominik Jung in the latest weather video from
wetternet
on YouTube.
And points to a map of Europe, which comes in the usual red color across the board.
It is also clear that the weather in Bavaria remains hot and dry.
Hardly a trace of rain, which nature longs for.
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The summer of 2022 is currently the driest since weather records began in 1881.
According to
wetter.net
, there has been around 100 liters of rain per square meter across Germany so far – but 250 liters of rain are more normal.
A clear deficit that is also noticeable in Bavaria.
Rivers carry significantly less water, the German Weather Service (DWD) constantly classifies the risk of forest fires at the highest, fifth, level.
Not without reason, as there are almost daily reports of burning fields, forests or even buildings.
It is the historical comparisons that help to classify the current weather in Nuremberg and Bavaria.
According to wetter.net
, the summer of 2022 will
no longer be the hottest summer since 1881 – here it will be “third or fourth place”.
The situation is different when it rains: so far, only nine percent of its target has been met.
So if the rest of the summer isn't extremely rainy, the records will tumble.
So what are the forecasts here?
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The weather forecast for Bavaria can be viewed from two perspectives.
First, the temperature forecast, which the meteorologists around Dominik Jung from
wetter.net
are quite sure about.
By the middle of next week, August 17th, the weather will settle at around 30 degrees and more.
Especially for southern Bavaria including the public holiday on Monday, August 15th, sunny prospects for the long weekend.
But the rain is missing, and here the experts are also unsure.
Precipitation is the hardest thing to predict, explains Jung, one of the “hardest parameters to calculate”.
Regionally erratic and different.
Occasional thunderstorms with "quite extensive" precipitation are expected from the west, but the forecasts should be treated with caution, writes meteorologist Jung in the
wetter.net
press release.
(fhz)
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