“There were over 400 weather-related emergency calls last night until 10pm”, a spokesperson for the Bavarian Red Cross announced. The storms also caused damage in the city of Schweinfurt, Lower Franconia. Roads in Regensburg, including the A93 autobahn were flooded in some parts of the city, the power was out for hours. Chorus Cm Loud thunder heavy rain A Thin line between joy and pain Fm Its a long strange trip, its all insane G You aint never gonna be the same Cm Living life through the night A Thin line of the lightning strike Fm Sometimes the only light G When the moon is tucked away. At least one person was harmed after a traffic accident. On Tuesday night, Bavaria was also hit with heavy storms. Several buildings in the town near Hanover are now in danger of collapsing and many basements have been completely flooded. Police in Bad Gandersheim in Lower Saxony announced on Wednesday that thunderstorms and subsequent floods had likely caused millions of euros worth of property damage. In Gießen, a town just north of Frankfurt, the A+E department at the University Clinic was party flooded and for around two hours, no emergency patients could be admitted. Listen to 'Loud And Heavy Thunder' by Sounds of Nature : Thunderstorm, Rain on Deezer. “The damage to infrastructure will have been substantial”, a spokesperson for the city said further repairs and clean-up are expected to take another few days. In Wuppertal city centre, the roof of a university building gave way and a petrol station roof collapsed, damaging several vehicles. The damage wasn't just limited to basements. “We have to clear the basements,” a spokesperson for the fire brigade commented. On Wednesday morning, almost 550 firefighters were still at work in the western city. “It was extreme and is the amount of rain that usually falls during the course of a month”, a DWD spokesperson said. In Wuppertal, 100 litres per square metre of rain fell at the height of the storm. The west of the country was hit by heavy downpour on Tuesday, leading to severe damage in the Ruhr region. Munich could also be hit by violent storms on Thursday, as the DWD predicts heavy downpour in the region near the Bavarian Alps in the later stages of the day. Severe hurricanes brought thunderstorms, heavy rains and hail across the region Saturday afternoon and triggered a tornado warning for Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island. While Thursday and Friday are likely to be calm in and around the capital, storms could be on the way again at the weekend.
The DWD issued a weather warning for Berlin and Brandenburg which stated that heavy rain was likely to occur on Wednesday afternoon, with hail also a possibility. “There is no end in sight,” the German Weather Service (DWD) said on Wednesday of the turbulent weather, before warning that “it's going to get loud.” The unusually hot May temperatures have brought clear blue skies to the Bundesrepublik, but they continue to also bring storms in their wake.Īfter days of flash flooding in several regions of the country, the weathermen are again predicting thunder and lightning – and this time it is going to hit the capital.
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