It keeps pouring and pouring and doesn’t stop. Up to 40 liters of rain are falling. There’s also a threat of thunderstorms with the risk of supercells and even tornadoes.
On the German Weather Service (DWD) warning map, large areas of Germany are highlighted in orange and yellow. Official weather warnings for Wednesday have been issued by the service. “Wetter.com” is forecasting “the most turbulent day of the work week.”
The areas south of Aachen in the Eifel, west of the Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia and the north of Rhineland-Palatinate, the vicinity of Mannheim and Heidelberg, the Odenwald, the Hunsrück and other parts of Hesse, Franconia, the Thuringian Forest, and the Fichtel Mountains are all under an orange alert (warning level 2 of 4) due to the ongoing rain.
Thunderstorms: Potential for tornadoes and supercells :
The entire western half and central region, from the Ruhr area through Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt to just into Saxony, in Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, and large parts of Bavaria, are under alert level yellow (warning level 1 of 4) due to strong wind gusts. This includes the North Sea coast to Hamburg.
