Cooling off in the morning – lightning and thunder wake Viennese from their sleep


Loud thunderbolts, bright lightning bolts, heavy rain showers: thunderstorms reached Vienna on Wednesday night and rudely woke up one or the other slumbering person. In the course of the day, however, the weather will calm down again, up to 30 degrees are expected in the east of the country.

The storms moved in from the south and reached the federal capital in the early hours of the morning.

While the first half of the day is inconsistent with rain showers and thunderstorms in the entire east, it becomes calmer again in the course of the afternoon: the clouds loosen up, it becomes increasingly dry and with up to 30 degrees it is also hot again.

In the past few days and weeks the heat has brooded in the east of the country and there has been hardly any precipitation, while several storms have already fallen in the west. There were several mudslides in Tyrol. After a landslide in Längenfeld, the valley’s main artery, the Ötztalstraße, had to be closed.