Huge Sahara dust cloud encroaches on Germany: thousands of tons of particles

Berlin – Hoch “Jannis” gives it his all again on Thursday and ensures a good mood feeling with new warmth. If only the reddish dust wasn’t in the atmosphere! A massive dust cloud from the central Sahara comes to us over the Mediterranean and clouds the blue sky for several days.

Dr. Karsten Brandt from donnerwetter.de to BILD: “He already had it on Wednesday Saharastaub reached the Alpine region. Now it’s all over Germany.” Models show that the rusty cloud is becoming significantly denser. “Although the sky is no longer as beautifully deep blue, the sunrises and sunsets are becoming more colorful,” says Brandt.

Car washing should be postponed

What drivers need to know: Our Wetter It’s bone dry though. But that could change next week. With precipitation the dust would be washed out into “blood rain”. “It cannot be ruled out that this will happen next week,” says Brandt. The weather expert: “I would definitely wait that long before washing the car.”

Sahara dust also comes down dry

According to estimates, tens of thousands of tons of dust are transported to a height of around three kilometers. According to Dominik Jung from wetter.net, no one can say exactly how much. The qualified meteorologist told BILD: “The dust will also fall dry. This is called dry deposition and can also be seen primarily on cars. Many people confuse the dust in the dust Spring with pollen.“

Storms in the world’s largest dry desert are for the Spring typical. They bring the streaky flags to us. But the dusty greeting from the desert does not change the continued stable weather situation in Germany. Where it was cold yesterday, it was particularly nice today.

Weather warms up the north

Especially the north was affected by the temperature dip. “The temperature jump is particularly clear there now: from 11 degrees on Wednesday up to 16 degrees, for example in Hamburg,” said Karsten Brandt to BILD. According to the German Weather Service (DWD), Bremen reaches 17 degrees. Only in the extreme northwest did it remain cool at just 11 degrees.

The East has to thaw first

The East was still Germany’s freezer in the morning! Nowhere was it colder early on Thursday than south of Frankfurt/Oder. The thermometer there fell to a crisp minus 5 degrees. The Erzgebirge and Berlin also initially hovered around zero. “But those Sonne “It’s got strength,” says Dominik Jung. And there’s plenty of sun again on Thursday. With the exception of the mountains, around 15 degrees were reached almost everywhere in the east over the course of the day.

Peak values ​​in the West

Climatologist Karsten Brandt told BILD: “There will be some cloud fields, but mostly it will be sunny.” It is warmest on the Rhine. The meteorologists assumed that the 20 degree mark would be broken in several places in the afternoon, for example around Cologne and Düsseldorf as well as in the Palatinate. On Friday night the air only occasionally cools down to temperatures below 4 degrees.

This is what the weather will be like in the south

Meteorologist Dominik Jung told BILD: “In Baden-Württemberg, the 20 degree mark is reached or slightly exceeded here and there.” Stuttgart and Freiburg have a good chance of breaking the mark. After all: Bavaria reaches 18 degrees. On the night of Friday it gets denser there too Fog on. And it might be slightly frosty and slippery again in the Alps.

Overall, the super spring weather will continue to be stable throughout Germany for the foreseeable future.