After the rainy spring, Germany is facing the first summer heat wave.
According to the German Weather Service (DWD), it can be up to 32 degrees warm on the Upper Rhine on Tuesday.
It looks different in the north, where the temperatures even get a little damper.
North of a line Berlin-Hanover-Ruhr area it will mostly stay below 25 degrees.
Only 17 to 19 degrees are reached on the North Sea.
On Wednesday, with lots of sunshine and loose cumulus clouds, the temperatures in the south and in the center of Germany rise above 30 degrees in many places. "Along the rivers in southern and western Germany you really work up a sweat at 32 to 34 degrees," said Markus Übel from the weather forecast center in Offenbach on Monday. “On Thursday the summer will go one step further.” From Kiel to Konstanz and from Aachen to Cottbus, the thermometer climbs to a hot 30 to locally even 35 degrees.
Wherever it gets hot, the outdoor pools await a lot of visitors.
"We expect high demand," said a spokeswoman for KölnBäder GmbH on Monday.
Visitors have already booked slots for the next few days.
We recommend booking in advance.
The outdoor pool is very popular.
"Families want to splash around, sport swimmers want to swim laps," she said.
Time slots were even fully booked on Sunday.
Forest fire hazard in Saxony-Anhalt
A lot is currently going on outdoors in cafes and pubs.
The already big trend towards outdoor catering has become even more intense due to the corona pandemic, said the spokesman for the Dehoga NRW industry association, Thorsten Hellwig.
The summer weather reinforces that again.
“The trend is to offer as much as possible outside,” said Hellwig.
Drought and heat pose dangers for Saxony-Anhalt's forests. As early as Monday, the forest state center indicated the forest fire risk with the highest or second highest level for half of the areas. The area around Wittenberg and Anhalt-Bitterfeld is particularly badly affected. The situation could worsen due to the weather.