Severe weather warning for Berlin: thunderstorms with hail and heavy rain threaten!

Severe weather warning for Berlin: thunderstorms with hail and heavy rain threaten!

Berlin, Deutschland - An abrupt weather environment announces itself for Berlin and Brandenburg. On June 3, 2025, the day until noon was initially shaped by bright sunshine and temperatures between 25 and 28 degrees. The highest temperatures could be recorded in particular in Lower Lusatia. But from the early afternoon, dense clouds of southwest, which bring the possibility of local, heavy thunderstorms.

The so -called storm dangers should not be underestimated. Forecasts indicate heavy rain of up to 40 liters per square meter in less than an hour. This could also be accompanied by gusts of wind that can achieve speeds of up to 90 km/h. While the storm forecast is met with great uncertainties, a clear warning is already emerging: on Thursday night, the storms take off east. rbb24 reports that the rest of the days of the week remain changeable and that showers and individual thunderstorms without significant storm risk.

harbinger of extreme weather events

The weather situation in Germany next Wednesday not only will take risks for the capital. In the morning there are already a few thunderstorms predicted, which could expand to a thunderstorm line at noon. This extends from Karlsruhe via Frankfurt am Main to Berlin. Heavy rain and hail can be expected in these areas in the early afternoon. FOCUS emphasizes that the most intense thunderstorms in Thuringia and Bavaria can be expected in the course of Wednesday, where the formation of powerful super cells is not excluded.

In particular between Erfurt and Cottbus, an increased risk of tornado is predicted until evening. In the south of the Federal Republic, a super cell could form from 4 p.m. from Switzerland to Munich and Passau to the Czech border. These developments show the increasing intensity of the weather events: According to the meteorologists, the air mass in Germany is saturated with water vapor so that extreme thunderstorms are severely favored by the height winds.

climatic changes as the cause

The storm situation and the frequency of such extreme weather events are not purely random. A report by the German Weather Service underlines that due to global warming, an increase in extreme weather in Germany has been recorded. There are significant changes such as more often and a decrease in the strict frost. Phenomena are - the likelihood of new temperature records are stylized by these climatic changes.

In the upcoming decades, experts expect further tightening of these situations, which requires the need for an intensive examination of extreme weather events and their causes. The weather forecasts for the next few days in Berlin and Brandenburg, as well as future developments in Germany, therefore remain an important social and scientific topic.