April is coming to an end.
And shows his ugly face in his last days.
The weather in Germany brings a lot of rain for the weekend.
Update from April 29, 10:55 a.m .
: The weather is currently showing its changeable side, in many parts of Germany storms and falling temperatures are currently causing gloomy prospects.
After the stormy rains in northern Baden-Württemberg, a house is currently uninhabitable due to a landslide in Heidelberg.
However, there is no acute danger of collapse, said a police spokesman on Saturday after the house had been examined by a structural engineer.
The street in front of the house will remain closed as long as the damp slope can continue to slide.
The elderly resident was safely taken to safety on Friday and stayed with a relative.
Numerous basements and streets were flooded by the heavy rain on Friday.
The cities of Heidelberg and Mannheim as well as the Neckar-Odenwald district and especially the Rhein-Neckar district were particularly affected.
There were around 60 firefighting operations there alone.
A gas station was also temporarily flooded.
As a police spokesman explained, the gas station in the Waldwimmersbach district of Lobbach (Rhein-Neckar district) was surprised by water, mud and debris.
However, the water did not get into any of the tanks and did not cause any major damage.
Everything has now been cleared.
Storm rages in Germany - heavy rain causes landslides and flooded basements
Original message from April 28, 2023:
Munich – There is a saying about the weather: “April does what it wants.” In 2023, the fourth month of the year will again show its unpredictability in terms of weather conditions.
First there was snow, later the rain fell, then temperatures sometimes over 20 degrees gave hope for a spring awakening.
But this hope was not fulfilled.
Plenty of rain rained down on Germany again on Friday.
A weather expert had already predicted a storm for April 28, in which "things can really get down to business".
In parts of Baden-Württemberg, this weather forecast has now been fulfilled.
On Friday, stormy rain caused roads in the north of the state to be flooded.
Numerous cellars filled up, and the storm even triggered a landslide in Heidelberg.
Weather in Germany: landslide due to stormy rainfall - resident must be brought to safety
According to the police, the residents of the house affected by the sliding slope were able to save themselves in time.
The elderly resident was able to be brought to safety unharmed, it said.
Now a structural engineer has to check whether the building is still habitable in its current state.
So far there have not been any injuries from the storm in other Baden-Württemberg cities such as Mannheim, Karlsruhe and Heilbronn.
This was reported by the local police headquarters.
There, however, manhole covers were washed up by the rain masses from the storm, trees fell and roads were no longer passable for the time being.
The storm raged most violently in Heidelberg and Mannheim as well as in the Neckar-Odenwald and Rhein-Neckar districts.
Weather in Germany: DWD reports wet April 2023 - but vegetation is "gradually turning bright green"
Meanwhile, the German Weather Service (DWD) said that April 2023 was very rainy.
For the first time in 15 years, the fourth month of the year in Germany was too wet, the DWD found after the preliminary evaluation of its measurements on Friday.
With almost 64 liters of rainwater falling per square meter in April 2023, this was ten percent above the value of the internationally valid reference period from 1961 to 1990.
Drought summer 2022: drought and lack of rain burden Germany
Drought summer 2022: drought and lack of rain burden Germany
The vegetation, which has repeatedly suffered from drought in recent months, has benefited from this.
The weather experts said that it had "gradually turned a strong green" after the heavy rainfall in recent months.
The average temperature of around 7.5 degrees Celsius, on the other hand, was unremarkable.
What was special, however, was that for the first time since 2008 it didn't get really warm in April.
In April 2023 there was not a single summer day with more than 25 degrees Celsius.
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