Temperatures in large parts of the country were only below 30 degrees again on Tuesday. This emerges from the forecast of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics. On Thursday the heat hotspot was in the east.
Heat hotspots in Lower Austria
It was the hottest in the whole country today at 1.20 p.m. in three Lower Austrian communities: in Pöttschach with 35, in Wolkersdorf with 34.8 and in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg with 34.6 degrees. The Burgenland communities of Bad Tatzmannsdorf followed with 34.5 degrees and Mattersburg with 34.4 degrees. Vienna ranked 13th with 33.8 degrees, measured in Unterlaa. Only 26th in the maximum temperature ranking was St. Andrä in Lavanttal (Carinthia), a measuring point outside of eastern Austria with 33.1 degrees.
There is a risk of thunderstorms on Friday
Friday then starts in the north-east with night-time remnants of disturbance that will soon resolve. Apart from that, the sunny weather character predominates overall. However, a few cumulus clouds form over the course of the day, especially over the mountains and hills. With them, local thunderstorms cannot be completely ruled out. The wind is increasingly blowing from the south, but only occasionally blows moderately on the northern edge of the Alps. From twelve to 24 degrees in the morning, temperatures rise to 27 to 36 degrees during the day, with the highest values on the eastern edge of the Alps.
Rain showers will pass on Saturday
In most parts of the country, Saturday will start with sunshine and dry. From the west, however, the first foothills of the fault soon reach the eastern Alps and then move eastwards until the afternoon with rain showers and thunderstorms. The tendency for showers and thunderstorms generally decreases only during the evening hours. With the precipitation, the wind turns west to north-west and picks up moderately to briskly, especially in the north and east. In the morning the thermometer shows 15 to 23 degrees. The maximum daily temperatures are between 24 and 36 degrees, and it remains warmest in the extreme east and south-east.
After the disturbance has been subtracted, the Alpine region will be under the influence of a northwesterly upper-level current on Sunday. On the ground, the air pressure increases again. This means that there will be short rain showers, especially in the mountains, with generally quite sunny and again midsummer temperatures. Isolated thunderstorms are most likely to occur between East Tyrol and southern Burgenland. The wind comes moderately from west to northwest with early temperatures between 13 and 21 degrees and highs between 27 and 34 degrees.
With decreasing surface pressure and at the front of a low centered over the Norwegian Sea, the Eastern Alps area will again be caught in a distinctive, subtropical south-west current on Monday. As a result, temperatures throughout Austria at low altitudes will again rise well above 30 degrees. In the west, the likelihood of thunderstorms will increase in the morning and will spread at least to the Salzkammergut and Upper Carinthia over the course of the day. The hot wind from the south-east picks up noticeably on the eastern edge of the Alps.
On Tuesday, a cold front reached western Austria in the early hours of the morning with thunderstorms and heavy rain showers in places, and is moving quickly to the east. By noon, the thunderstorm and precipitation activity will spread to the whole of Germany. In the afternoon it will loosen up again from the west with increasing air pressure, only in the north traffic jam remainders are weather-active. When the disturbance passes through, the westerly wind revives vigorously. For the first time in days, the daily highs are again below the 30 degree mark in large parts.
Source: Nachrichten
