Today in Rhein-Main: why it's so dry here...

Good evening,

did you enjoy the short rain at the weekend?

Monday is supposed to be hot and dry, as it has been this summer overall and which is one of the reasons why the lantern festival in Bad Homburg ends on Monday without fireworks.

We spoke to a meteorologist about the weather, we examine the topic of balcony electricity and look at the start of school: a good start to the week with names and news from Rhein-Main.

Jacqueline Vogt

Department head of the Rhein-Main editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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Andreas Friedrich is an experienced meteorologist.

He has worked for the German Weather Service in Offenbach since 1985.

During this time he has, naturally, seen many phenomena.

In an interview that Peter Badenhop conducted with him, he explains one thing: why in hot and dry summers the Rhine-Main area is even more affected by heat and drought than other areas.

The man who is also the tornado officer at the weather service also says what the weather will be like in the next ten days.

Go to school:

That was it for the Hessian summer holidays in 2022. For 60,000 children and young people, school is now either continuing or starting.

As always, the first graders board on the Tuesday after the long vacation;

in Frankfurt there are 7672. In addition to the curriculum and the question of who teaches whom, students and their families, but also the staff at the schools, deal with the topic of Corona.

The Hessian Minister of Education Alexander Lorz (CDU) expressed the hope on Friday that after the restrictions of the past two school years, the focus could now be on educational work again.

The current situation is fundamentally different from the past two school years, said Lorz.

A test and mask requirement, for example, should only be considered if that is the only option given the pandemic situation.

to maintain face-to-face teaching across the board.

Basically, he added, schools "should not be subject to more restrictions than the rest of society."

Questions of school development are also important;

in Frankfurt, for example, the Gymnasium Süd, a new secondary school, is starting operations.

In addition, the city of Frankfurt has spent a lot of money on air filters in the classrooms.

Rainer Schulze wrote down how that was evaluated.

Small power plants

: Mini photovoltaic systems for converting light into electricity are very popular at the moment and can be installed comparatively easily on the balconies of apartment buildings.

In some places, the purchase is subsidized, Kelkheim, for example, gives 100 euros for each 500 systems.

Like everything in life, the seemingly ingenious idea that every tenant can generate the energy they need themselves has two sides: the balcony electricity is not worth it for everyone.

Petra Kirchhoff reports.

And in addition

, a chief inspector of crimes has set out from Darmstadt on a hike back and forth through Hesse, where she wants to collect donations for the reconstruction after the flood disaster in the Ahr Valley

the Rheingau Music Festival is with a concert by the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra in the basilica of the Klosters Eberbach came to an end and, according to the organizers, the 134 concerts of the festival had around

listeners billion euros.

Warm greetings from the editorial team

Jacqueline Vogt

You can also read current reports from the region in Skyline-Blick, our live news blog for the Rhine-Main region, and on the Rhein-Main-Zeitung website at www.faz.net/rmz

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Lots of sunshine after local fog, only a few clouds here and there, but dry.

28 to 31 degrees.

Light wind around southeast.

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Monday 5 September

Hartmut Holzapfel

(SPD), Chairman of the Hessian Literature Council, Wiesbaden, former Hessian Minister of Education (78);

, former labor director of Fraport AG, Frankfurt (75);

, artist active in Frankfurt (43);