Storm chaos in Saxony: hail, floods and power outages!

Storm chaos in Saxony: hail, floods and power outages!

Aue, Deutschland - Yesterday a violent storm broke out over Saxony, which caused excitement in many regions. After a humid Sunday, shaped by temperatures up to 33 degrees Celsius in Hoyerswerda and Elsterheide, the residents experienced violent thunderstorms with heavy rain and gusts of wind. In areas such as the Erzgebirge, Vogtland, Chemnitz and Zwickau, the weather-related effects were particularly noticeable, as mdr

in Schwarzenberg there was even a hailstick that temporarily turned some streets into a white sea. Unfortunately, this led to full basements, flooded streets and fallen trees. The emergency services had to deploy around 250 times in the Erzgebirge district. The situation on the railway line between Johanngeorgenstadt and Antonsthal, which was blocked by a scree avalanche, was particularly dramatic. Several hundred customers met a massive power outage in Stollberg, Lößnitz and Aue-Bad Schlema and caused additional problems.

rapid weather changes

As from the weather reports of the German Weather Service , the thunderstorms stopped until the night, whereby the massive rains reached top effects in the city alone. Quadratmeter, while 55 liters were measured on the Fichtelberg. This led to slipped slopes in Aue, flooded streets and lying cars. It was also haywire in the Vogtland: there were 77 missions in Auerbach within three hours - cellar ran full, streets were under water, and fallen trees blocked the lanes.

Special attention was drawn to a fallen tree in Auerbach, which received a parked car. In addition, a scaffolding fell on a residential building and caused further damage. The volunteer fire brigade in Auerbach was in a special location due to the high volume of deployment. Just a few kilometers away, the fire brigade had to move out in Treuen to remove a collapsed chimney that had damaged several vehicles.

The weather warnings in detail

According to the available information from Storm Center , the thunderstorms were divided into different stages. There were preliminary warnings and acute warnings that informed the population before the impending dangers of neon -colored maps and graphics. Under certain circumstances, hail and heavy storm or hurricane gusts, especially in the red and violet, also occurred.

The risk of storm by heavy rain will also occur again in the near future, as a cold front of a deep is moving over the Shetland towards Germany. The next few hours could again be peppered with heavy rains of 20 liters per square meter in a short time and storm gusts of up to 85 km/h.

Hopefully the weather will soon swing into the positive, because after such show thunderstorms, both nature and the people in Saxony are dependent on a breather.