Flood warning: Danger from rain and thaw in Bavaria!

Flood warning: Danger from rain and thaw in Bavaria!

Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, Deutschland - The Bavarian Environmental State Office pronounced a flood warning for the north of Bavaria on Tuesday. The west of Middle Franconia and the north of Franconia are particularly affected by the warning reports. The forecast provides for exaggerations and floods, including smaller waters. The alarm is considered the official warning of level 1, which was triggered by heavy rains, thaw and melting of snow.

The weather conditions are expected to change little in the coming days. On Wednesday, too, levels can only be expected in exceptional cases. The warnings of level 1 apply until Wednesday in the following counties:

• Main-Spessart
• Bad Kissingen
• Rhön-Grabfeld
• Haßberge
• Lichtenfels
• Kulmbach
• Bamberg
• Forchheim
• Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen

An official warning of level 2 also exists for the districts of Erlangen-Höchstadt and Ansbach.

Current flood situation in Bavaria

The flood participation service Bayern (HND) emphasizes the meaning of early information in the event of threatening floods in order to be able to act in good time. The HND, responsible for flood warnings and predictions, uses measurement data of around 770 levels and 550 precipitation stations to determine flood forecasts. Detailed information on current levels on rivers and lakes can be found on the HND website, which is also optimized for mobile devices.

The type of flood warnings ranges from warnings to warnings of exits and floods to all -clear, whereby new warnings may be a maximum of three hours old. In addition, the German Weather Service (DWD) warns of local floods by heavy rain, although the warning does not apply to river floods. The DWD also offers several predictions for each federal state and provides warnings to heavy rain, constant rain, thunderstorms and thaw in Bavaria.

The Bavarian Ministry of the Environment also offers the environmental information app, which warns of the dangers of floods or storms and provides push messages from HND and DWD. This app is available on iOS and Android. In order to follow the current flood situation, users can use the my level app that informs more than 2,000 levels in Germany and is also available on iOS, Android and Windows Phone. Important sources of information in floods are also radio, television and speaker announcements. Likewise, the video text table 647 of Bavarian television should be observed, such as floodinginfo Bayern reported.

For further information on the flood warning and current location, Augsburger Allgemeine The developments and warnings in Bavaria.

-transmitted by West-Ost-media