Good evening,


This Tuesday the sky over the Rhine-Main region has once again acted as if nothing could cloud it, let alone as if it wanted someone bad. How unpredictable the forces of nature are, however, the people in Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria have tragically experienced over the past few days. Compared to this, the floods, which hit municipalities in the Main-Taunus district last summer, for example, are harmless.

However, these torrents had already made it clear that before the "phenomenon" of heavy rain, which meteorologists and climatologists speak of, one can actually be affected anywhere

.

Peter Badenhop, Oliver Bock, Mechthild Harting and Heike Lattka have put together on two pages in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung how the unimaginable can perhaps be explained.

The paths that the water masses then take can be calculated to a certain extent.

And in the future, too, one must distinguish between the consequences of storms and the rather epic flooding of a river like the Rhine.

Helmut Schwan

Head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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In his comment, Alexander Jürgs defends the Fridays for Future movement, which is now planning a restart in Mainz after the corona-related break, from criticism that it is instrumentalizing the flood disaster for its own purposes. He thinks the subject is legitimate and necessary. After all, this is one

of FfF's core competencies: improving the conditions for a future in which young people and their children will live one day.

Boris Rhein feels very comfortable in his place as President of the Hessian State Parliament.

In any case, the forty-nine year old gives this impression in an interview with the Rhein-Main-Zeitung. The former Hessian Minister of the Interior and Science wants to give parliament more esprit when it debates on the country's important issues. In an interview with Ewald Hetrodt and Carsten Knop, Rhein defends himself against the impression that during the corona crisis the executive took over the reins of action in Hesse as well. When asked, Rhein says that people's trust in politics is decisive for the acceptance of political action. And that is achieved by making decisions transparently presented and discussed.

In addition

, the Frankfurt police arrested a man who was apparently confused and who was possibly planning an amoktat. Officials found numerous weapons on the site of the neglected allotment garden;

Eintracht Frankfurt and the German Red Cross offer vaccinations with the active ingredient Johnson & Johnson in the Waldstadion on Saturday and Sunday;

The town hall in Geisenheim remains offline after the hacker attack on the weekend to be on the safe side.

Stay mindful

Yours Helmut Schwan

The

weather on

Wednesday

... remains stable in the Rhine-Main region, which is good news in these troubled times.

Only a few clouds are to be expected in the sky during the day, the temperature reaches values ​​between 20 and 27 degrees during the day.

Birthday

is on

Wednesday:

Dorothée Hofer

, managing director of the EBS University for Economics and Law, Wiesbaden and Oestrich-Winkel (43).