Essen (dpa / lnw) - People in North Rhine-Westphalia are expecting severe thunderstorms. Tuesday starts with little rain with highs of up to 26 degrees in the mountains and up to 31 degrees on the Rhine, as the German Weather Service (DWD) in Offenbach announced in the morning. From the afternoon onwards, more clouds will appear and there will be a few strong thunderstorms and stormy gusts with speeds of around 70 kilometers per hour. Storms with heavy rain are also possible locally, which bring around 20 liters per square meter and selective amounts of around 30 liters per hour.
Temperatures will drop to as low as 12 degrees on Wednesday night. In addition, strong thunderstorms with heavy rain between 20 and 40 liters per square meter in one or more hours occur from the southwest. In addition, gusts of wind develop at up to 85 kilometers per hour and there is also hail. The thunderstorm only weakened during the night.
On Wednesday the rain will then move to the north-east and the weather will loosen up again. There are also individual showers or thunderstorms with maximum values of up to 27 degrees. In the night to Thursday it will be very cloudy and from the west there will be thunderstorms and storms with heavy rain. The lows drop to up to 12 degrees, in the Eifel to up to 10 degrees.
