With the low “Antonia” threatens the next severe storm in Baden-Württemberg on Monday night. While the southwest has survived the storms “Ylenia” and “Zeynep” relatively unscathed, according to the German Weather Service (DWD), it could be even more violent this time.
“Antonia” can be stronger for Baden-Württemberg,” said a spokesman on Sunday. While the cold front moves across the country at night, there could be local thunderstorms. Then hurricane-like gusts of up to 110 kilometers per hour are also possible in the lowlands, the meteorologists warned.
Highest risk of thunderstorms on Monday night
“They can have a high potential for danger, especially if branches have already cracked from the last storm,” said the spokesman. He expects that the highest risk of thunderstorms will be between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. at night and that the northern half and east of Baden-Württemberg could be most likely to be affected.
However, the severe weather warning applies primarily to the high altitudes, i.e. for the Black Forest and the Swabian Jura above 800 meters and for the Odenwald at over 600 meters.
Hurricane-like gusts of up to 110 kilometers per hour are to be expected here. Gusts of up to 130 kilometers per hour can also be expected on the highest Black Forest peaks such as the Feldberg.
The weather experts therefore warned of an extreme danger from objects flying around and falling trees. Traffic is likely to be severely restricted. There could be snow-smooth roads above 800 meters early Monday, and one to three centimeters of fresh snow should fall in the Black Forest by the morning.
“Antonia” moves from northwest to southeast
Especially in the northwest and west of Germany there will be hurricane-like gusts. The weather only calmed down from Monday evening, said a meteorologist from the German Weather Service in Offenbach on Sunday.
According to the DWD forecast, “Antonia” can not only bring gusts of up to 115 kilometers per hour wind speed when passing from northwest to southeast, but also heavy showers and thunderstorms. The DWD also issued a severe weather warning for parts of Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition to storm consequences such as falling roof tiles, local lightning damage is possible.
Trees also pose a particular danger, as DWD expert Adrian Leyser explained: Trees that have already been affected by previous storms and are in heavily softened ground could easily fall over.
Further severe impairments in rail traffic
The cold front should reach the foothills of the Alps in the morning. In the past few days, the hurricanes “Ylenia” and “Zeynep” had caused fatal accidents and immense damage. Because of the clearing of fallen trees and damaged overhead lines, rail travelers had to continue to expect train cancellations and delays, especially in northern Germany. The railway announced that there would be severe impairments until at least Monday afternoon.
According to initial estimates, “Zeynep” and “Ylenia” alone are likely to cost insurers more than 1.4 billion euros. “Zeynep” caused insured losses of over 900 million euros, said the management consultancy Meyerthole Siems Kohlruss (MSK), which specializes in actuarial mathematics, in Cologne.
It was the most intense storm since “Kyrill” in 2007. The company estimated the insured losses from storm “Ylenia” at 500 million euros.
Storm low “Zeynep”: A man seriously injured in the southwest
When the storm “Zeynep” passed through, a 68-year-old man was seriously injured in the southwest. As a police spokesman reported, the man was hit by falling tree parts on Saturday night in the Monbachtal (Calw district) south of Pforzheim. He was only found on Saturday morning and taken to a hospital.
The storm kept the fire departments and police in suspense in the south-west. According to their own statements, the Stuttgart fire brigade removed numerous trees from roads and rails on Saturday night. In the north of the state capital, a tin roof with an area of 60 square meters and two chimneys fell on cars. The city warned that branches could fall
In Böblingen, a tree fell on a power line, causing a brief interruption in the power supply, the police reported. There were operations in the area of the Mannheim police headquarters because trees or construction site barriers had fallen. In the north of Karlsruhe, the flat roof of an apartment building was largely torn away by the wind, according to the local fire department.
“Zeynep” also brought extreme hurricane gusts in the southwest. As a spokeswoman for the German Weather Service (DWD) in Offenbach announced, a gust was measured on the Feldberg in the Black Forest that reached 137.5 kilometers per hour. (dpa)
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