2023-06-23 04:33:01
Parts of Germany have been hit by severe storms. However, no major damage was reported on Friday night. The fire brigade in the city of Braunschweig in Lower Saxony alone counted hundreds of operations. Videos showed streets flooded and shops flooded. Trams and cars were stuck. There were similar recordings from the Hessian city of Kassel. However, most regions of Germany got off lightly.
Several federal states in the west, center and north-east were affected by the storm, which swept over Germany into the night. Videos and pictures of menacing clouds with lightning were shared on social networks. According to their own statements, the fire brigade in Duisburg rescued several people from vehicles that were stuck on flooded streets. According to the forecast of the German Weather Service (DWD), people in some regions have to be prepared for heavy rain on Friday.
The fire brigade brought many operations due to the weather conditions. For example, flooded cellars had to be pumped out. In the district of Neuwied in Rhineland-Palatinate, a tree fell on a moving car. “During another operation, people had to be rescued from their cars in a flooded underpass,” said the district’s fire and civil protection department. In the Frankfurt suburb of Sindlingen, several cars were badly damaged by fallen trees. “The people were extremely lucky,” said a fire department spokesman in view of the downright flattened vehicles in a residential area.
Hailstones the size of a golf ball fell from the sky in the Upper Bavarian valley. Initially, the police were not aware of any damage. There were also thunderstorms elsewhere on Thursday evening over Bavaria, some of the thunderstorms also spread to Salzburg. The police initially reported no significant incidents. In the Harz district, there were numerous flooded cellars due to the storm. The Berlin fire brigade declared the “state of emergency weather”.
The storm also had a massive impact on train traffic. The route between Berlin and Hamburg was still closed, as a spokeswoman for Deutsche Bahn announced on Friday morning. There were also heaps of delays and cancellations during the night. Several routes in Hesse, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia were closed. For stranded passengers, Deutsche Bahn made overnight trains available in several German cities on Thursday evening.
On Friday, the German Weather Service warned of “partly heavy rain lasting several hours” in north-west Germany and in Mecklenburg with rainfall of between 30 and 90 liters per square meter. In the east and southeast there might still be isolated thunderstorms with heavy rain, hail and stormy gusts, the DWD announced. In the course of Friday the weather will slowly calm down. On the night of Saturday, “probably no more warnings are required”.
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