Essen (dpa / lnw) - In the coming days, people in North Rhine-Westphalia can expect changeable and mild weather. On Thursday it will be cloudy and a little rainy during the day, said the German Weather Service (DWD) in Essen. In the late afternoon showers will increase from the west. In the mountains, the meteorologists expect stormy gusts of up to 70 kilometers per hour. The temperatures rise to eight to twelve degrees, at the highest levels to six degrees. It hardly rains on Friday night, but it remains cloudy with lows of between nine and six degrees.

On Friday the sky will be mostly overcast, some rain is also possible. The temperatures reach a maximum of ten to thirteen degrees. In the mountains, the DWD again predicts strong to stormy gusts, which should ease off in the afternoon.