Overview

• Greece and Italy remain under critical heat advisories with temperatures near 45 °C forcing midday closures of antiquities and outdoor work and contributing to heat-related fatalities in Sicily
• The Deutscher Wetterdienst has issued severe-weather warnings across Baden-Württemberg, Niedersachsen, Bremen, Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland for thunderstorms, hail up to 2 cm, strong winds and flash-flood danger
• Forecasts call for 25–60 L/m² of rain over the weekend in many German regions, with Alpine areas facing as much as 150 L/m² by Monday and heightened landslide risks
• Major events including Stuttgart’s Christopher Street Day, the Iron Maiden concert and Karlsruhe’s Das Fest have been disrupted by weather advisories and local flooding threats
• Meteorologists link these simultaneous extremes to a ‘European summer monsoon’ pattern under an Azores high and hardened soils from a dry spring that amplify flood hazards