North Rhine-Westphalia: In the next few days, the sun will almost always shine in NRW

Essen (dpa/lnw) - plenty of sun - people in North Rhine-Westphalia can look forward to that in the next few days.

North Rhine-Westphalia: In the next few days, the sun will almost always shine in NRW

Essen (dpa/lnw) - plenty of sun - people in North Rhine-Westphalia can look forward to that in the next few days. "Until Thursday it looks like calm summer weather and it's getting warmer and warmer," said a meteorologist from the German Weather Service (DWD) on Sunday. In the next few days, the air mass in the most populous federal state will gradually warm up. From Wednesday, when school starts again in NRW, the temperatures could then rise to over 30 degrees.

"There is no rain in sight until Thursday," emphasized the meteorologist. What makes sun fans happy is increasingly becoming a problem for shipping. The lack of rain is causing the water levels in many rivers to continue to drop, according to the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration. The level of the Rhine in Duisburg-Ruhrort, for example, was about 15 centimeters lower on Sunday morning than last Monday.

The Binnenschifffahrtsverband had already warned on Wednesday: "The current low water is increasingly hindering freight shipping in Germany." Because cargo ships with coal, grain and other goods cannot be fully loaded because of the low water, so that they do not run aground.