Another heat summit in Bavaria: the date for cooling is already in sight

Created: 08/13/2022, 14:28

It's the driest summer since 1881. But the end is finally in sight.

When will the longed-for cool down come?

Expert expresses himself - but cautiously.

• Heat in Bavaria:

  In the coming days, another heat peak is announced.

• Cooling off in the Free State

  : Finally some rain is announced.

• Drought in Germany:

  The necessary area-wide rain is missing for the time being.

Update from August 12, 6:49 a.m

.: Finally!

"The driest and sunniest phase of the summer of 2022 now seems to be coming to an end," explains qualified meteorologist Dominik Jung, managing director of the weather service Q.met.

In the course of the day, increasing cloudiness builds up from the Neisse to the Alps.

This is reported by the German Weather Service (DWD).

There may be isolated showers and thunderstorms, especially in the Bavarian Forest and in the Eastern Alps.

The temperatures are around 25 degrees.

"Weak to moderate, in the southern German mountains also fresh wind from east to north-east", according to the DWD, the Bavarians could cool down a bit.

However, hopes of widespread continuous rain in Nuremberg were shattered in the latest forecasts.

Drop in temperature in Bavaria: relaxation for nature?

Weather expert Dominik Jung is placing his hopes above all in the coming days: "Tomorrow there will be clouds and the first raindrops in eastern Germany, from Monday also in the west and the other parts of the country." But before the recovery comes, it will remain warm for the time being.

On Friday, temperatures in Bavaria will remain high at 24 to 28 degrees.

Saturday will also remain hot in Bavaria at 28 to 33 degrees.

Temperatures will remain high through Wednesday - peaking at 34 degrees midweek.

But then there is relaxation in Bavaria.

Because: “After the middle of the week there are signs of a drop in temperature, sometimes to values ​​around or below 20 degrees, at least in some regions.

In addition, there can always be rain.” And Bavaria could also get something out of it.

After a few showers in the north-east of the Free State, it will also rain in the rest of the country on Thursday.

Even 50 to 70 liters of rain per square meter can be expected on the edge of the Alps.

"The rain signals, they are gradually increasing," says Jung.

Even if the necessary area-wide rain does not materialize for the time being.

However, this would be urgently needed - in Nuremberg the trees are now watered with the water from indoor swimming pools.

Bavaria weather: Scary record on the way - weather maps for Bavaria continue to be dramatic

First report from August 11, 2022:

Munich – "The high Oscar is now omnipresent," explains Dominik Jung in the latest weather video from

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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Weather in Bavaria: Drought in Bavaria - like it hasn't been in 140 years

The summer of 2022 is currently the driest since weather records began in 1881.

According to

, 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.

, 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

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

press release.

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