Overview
- National forecasters at the DWD said Tuesday that a midweek pattern flip will follow early‑week showers and storms, with high pressure named Zeno expanding from the southwest.
- From Thursday the southwest turns sunnier and warmer, by Friday the Upper Rhine nears 30°C, and over the Pentecost weekend many areas reach 25–30°C with peaks up to 31°C; coastal regions stay cooler.
- The week’s start still carries risk for downpours, small hail, and gusts around 70 km/h in places like North Rhine‑Westphalia, while recent nights brought ground‑frost pockets that will fade as nights turn milder.
- The DWD stresses uneven odds for heat, with the west and southwest favored and the east and northeast less certain, even as major models increasingly cluster around a warm scenario.
- Forecasters link the warm‑up to a ‘Spanish plume’ pattern, where hot air from Iberia and the western Mediterranean rides north under a blocking high, a setup that can also prime the stage for strong thunderstorms after the hottest days.