Severe weather warning for Vorarlberg: heavy rain and thunderstorms on the way!

Severe weather warning for Vorarlberg: heavy rain and thunderstorms on the way!

Bodensee, Österreich - A week with sometimes intensive rains is imminent. On June 2, 2025, there are strong showers and thunderstorms, which can appear for the first time on Monday morning. From noon it is expected that the intensity and spread of precipitation, especially in the Rhine Valley and on Lake Constance, will increase. In the night of Tuesday, it remains rainy, while the thunderstorm is subsided, but can pull other intensive showers across the country. The temperatures vary between 11 and 17 degrees at night and reach up to 22 degrees during the day.

On Tuesday, the sun is temporary, but from the afternoon the thunderstorm tendency rises again. Maximum values ​​on Tuesday could reach up to 25 degrees, and the air becomes warm. Wednesday starts sunny with a foale south wind, but here too, showers and thunderstorms are possible again in the afternoon, especially around Lake Constance and in the Bregenzerwald. The temperatures can reach up to 26 degrees on Wednesday. Further showers and thunderstorms can be expected on Thursday. The weather conditions could calm down on Friday, with increased sunny sections, whereby local showers are not excluded.

weather conditions and thunderstorms

The current weather conditions are influenced by moist and unstable air over Austria and a low pressure area over Germany. According to uwz.at , thunderstorm activity can occur throughout Austria, especially in the south and on the Alpine edge. The main danger consists in small -scale floods due to slow storm dislocations, which can lead to local regional events, especially in the affected regions. In Vienna there is a precipitation of over 10 liters per square meter, with the largest amount of rain in Frohnleiten on Monday.

The increase in such extreme weather events is also in the context of climate change. The Wwf warns that climate change significantly increases heavy rain falls and flooding. A new report from the World Climate District (IPCC) shows that the surface temperature of the earth rises quickly and extreme weather events such as heavy rain are becoming increasingly likely. Forecasts say that flood events that previously occurred in 100 years could occur annually.

human activity, in particular the global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions, is the main cause of these changes. Studies show that the maximum rainfall has increased by 3 to 19 percent, which also increases the dangers of floods. Especially in recent years, devastating weather events such as the flood disaster in Germany in July 2021, in which over 180 people died, also the result of these climatic developments.