Storm chaos in the Vogtland: power failures and injured by storm damage!

Storm chaos in the Vogtland: power failures and injured by storm damage!

Bad Schandau, Deutschland - In the past few days, the weather has changed dramatically over Germany. On Sunday evening, June 16, 2025, numerous fire brigades in the Vogtland, Zwickau area and Erzgebirge district had to cope with hundreds of missions. Within just three hours, the emergency services were called for operations that were triggered by heavy rain and violent thunderstorms. [MDR] reports that several trees fall over and down there - hundreds of households remained temporarily without electricity.

But the storms not only made life difficult for the emergency services. In Bad Schandau, two people were slightly injured when they were looking for protection and parts of a linden tree fell on them. The fire brigade was also in constant use in Central Saxony and Saxon Switzerland, filled sandbags and secured house entrances. Evidence had to be carried out everywhere after the heavy rainfall, with muddy roads and plots of land shaped the picture.

storm throughout Germany

A little later, on Saturday, May 31, 2025, many parts of Germany came to similar extreme weather events in many parts of Germany. Heavy thunderstorms moved from the west to the country and led to roads in Euskirchen to be flooded and the fire brigade and police received numerous emergency calls. In Krefeld, for example, a police spokeswoman “Land under” reported when many basements ran full of water and the streets were flooded. [Weather] describes that a large event in Hückelhoven, in which 5000 people were present, had to be cleared because of the weather, with eleven people being injured by hail.

In Erftstadt, the amounts of water stood up to half a meter high and in Rhineland-Palatinate the train traffic also came to a standstill due to fallen trees. On Sunday, June 1st, the weather services were already on alert, since further storms were announced that were supposed to move to the east and south of Germany.

The long -term challenges

These repeated storm events are part of a larger trend that is influenced by climate change. According to an article list of natural disasters and extreme weather on the side of the German statutory accident insurance [DGUV], such weather extremes will occur more frequently in the future. Research shows that climate change not only leads to the increase in natural disasters, but also increases its economic damage. Attention should also be paid to the health risks of climatic changes that represent society with new challenges.

The current weather conditions clearly show that municipalities have to prepare better today and that more have to invest more in protective measures. The latest events should be understood as a wake -up call to take the necessary steps and increase resilience towards future extreme weather events.