Severe weather warning: heavy rain and thunderstorms threaten NRW at the weekend!

Severe weather warning: heavy rain and thunderstorms threaten NRW at the weekend!

Paderborn, Deutschland - The weather conditions in North Rhine-Westphalia have caused a lot of excitement in the past few days. The hottest day of the year, June 14, 2025, the temperatures in NRW even climbed to an impressive 34 degrees. But that's not all, because shortly after this summer heat, storms announced that the region was a significant danger. Like wa.de> reported in Paderborn to over 191 missions from while the basement flooded and the roof of a production hall collapsed. Fortunately, there were no injuries.

Weather forecasts for the region said that storm cells from France and Belgium would move over NRW, which could lead to violent rainfall. The maximum rainfall was forecast to up to 40 liters per square meter in the shortest possible time, accompanied by gusts of storm at speeds of up to 100 km/h. According to Zeit.de there are not only for parts of North Rhine-Westphalia, but also affect the east and south of Germany. There could be very violent thunderstorms locally here.

Current severe weather warnings

The weather conditions ensure that the warnings of the German Weather Service (DWD) are still up to date. They warn of strong thunderstorms, hail - partly with grains of up to 3 cm in diameter - and a strong fall in temperature after the storms to 21 to 24 degrees, possibly only up to 19 degrees. The DWD also predicts larger thunderstorm complexes for the night before Sunday that could bring hours -long, efficient heavy rain.

weather forecasts and outlook

The storms do not come as a surprise, because within the past two weeks this was the third violent storm. In the first half of June there were already strong thunderstorms that resulted in local floods and even a lightning strike to a family home. As a result, a festival had to be stopped and an aircraft had to be emerged in Memmingen.

The prospects for the next week are optimistic: summer temperatures around 22 degrees in the north and even up to 29 degrees in the south are foreseeable. The weather forecasts can be followed on the Storm Center that provides with current information around the clock.