Overview
- The storm sequence began Thursday evening in western Germany and spread overnight toward the Elbe, with renewed and intensified convective activity forecast to hit parts of the country on Friday.
- The Deutscher Wetterdienst has active warnings for heavy, short‑duration rainfall that can produce flash floods, with localized totals of about 25–50 l/m² possible in intense cells.
- Forecasters say hail up to roughly 3 cm and very strong to orkan‑strength gusts of about 85–120 km/h are most likely in the south and southeast, especially the Alpine foreland, Bavaria and Baden‑Württemberg.
- Meteorologists caution the worst impacts will be highly localized because storms are convective and small scale; they also note a slightly elevated but overall low tornado risk where supercells form.
- After the front passes temperatures should fall to the mid‑20s Celsius and the weather will quiet into a milder, drier weekend, but authorities urge people to follow tagesaktuelle DWD warnings for real‑time guidance.