Summer ade! Pentecost weekend brings storm and rain to Bavaria
Summer ade! Pentecost weekend brings storm and rain to Bavaria
Bayern, Deutschland - In Bavaria there is a rainy Pentecost weekend, which will go hand in hand with strong thunderstorms and violent gusts of wind. The German Weather Service (DWD) predicts for the Pentecost days in general dirty weather and a distinctive fall in temperature. On Saturday, continuous rain, thunderstorms and southwestern winds with gusts of up to 60 km/h can be expected, whereby stormy gusts of up to 70 km/h can even occur in mountain lines. The temperatures are between 17 and 22 degrees, reports merkur.de .
On Pentecost Sunday, a changing to strong clouds is expected, accompanied by common showers and other thunderstorms. The temperatures drop to 15 to 20 degrees, supported by a strong southwest wind. In the night of Monday, the values even fall to cool 10 to 5 degrees. A weather calming is announced for the Whit Monday, with temperatures of 15 to 21 degrees and weak northwest wind.
warnings of extreme weather events
The warnings of the DWD apply not only to Bavaria, but for all of Germany. On Friday, the day before the Pentecost weekend, shower and strong thunderstorms with heavy rain, small hail and stormy gusts can be expected. In places, even on coasts and in low mountain ranges there are heavy gusts of wind at speeds of up to 100 km/h. The DWD urgently warns of dangerous weather conditions over Pentecost, which according to also tornados could.
In retrospect for the storms on Wednesday, June 4, hailstones of up to 5 cm were registered, and hurricane -like gusts of up to 104 km/h caused considerable damage. Affected areas complain about covered roofs, uprooted trees and even an emergency landing of an aircraft.climate change and its effects
These extreme weather phenomena are increasingly associated with climate change. According to a report of Working Group I in the World Climate Commerce, published in August 2021, the surface temperature of the earth climbed faster than in the past 2000 years. The frequency of extreme weather events also increases because people are the main cause of climate change. In Germany, for example, in view of the changed climatic conditions in the flood disaster, over 180 people had to live in July 2021.
The wwf emphasized that the likelihood of heavy rainfalls in western Europe about 1.2 to 9-fold was increased. The report urgently calls for measures to combat the climate crisis to limit the earnings to a maximum of 1.5 degrees Celsius.
For gardeners and residents, this weather not only means a challenge, but also the risk of damage. Therefore, precautionary measures should be taken for sensitive plants, while nature has to suffer from the extreme weather events.
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