Severe weather in Switzerland – interim balance: pictures and numbers for the thunderstorm evening – Meteo




Severe weather in Switzerland – interim balance: pictures and numbers for the thunderstorm evening – Meteo – SRF























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Storm and hurricane gusts, a lot of rain in a short time and countless lightning bolts – that’s how the thunderstorms have raged so far.

weather condition

The air over Switzerland is energetic and warm and humid. The potential for thunderstorms is great. The initial spark for the thunderstorms is from an approaching from the west cold front come, which crosses Switzerland in several lines.

The most impressive photos

flashes

The thunderstorms lasted a long time before two lines of lightning-intensive thunderstorms passed over us in the evening. All over Switzerland since Thursday noon until 7.15 p.m 12300 flashes registered.

wind

Also because of the strong high wind could Storm and locally even hurricane gusts of over 118 km/h. Especially in Vaud, there were traffic delays due to fallen trees. Some readings from the plains and valleys are listed in the table below.

measuring station Peak gusts until 9 p.m

St-Prex/VD

135km/h

Basel-Mulhouse Airport/F

129km/h

Oron/VD

105km/h

Zermatt/VS

104km/h

Bouveret/VD

103km/h

Freiburg

92 km/h

Cressier/NE

91km/h

Wynau/BE

85km/h

heat

You could feel how muggy the air was on Thursday in many places. The measured values ​​are also impressive. In Chur there were hair dryers on Thursday afternoon 35.4 degrees registered, this value is in the top 5 for June in the measurement series that has lasted since 1959.


Weather story, SRF3, 06/22/2023


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