Storm and weather extreme: Easter causes surprises in Frankfurt!

Storm and weather extreme: Easter causes surprises in Frankfurt!

This day, April 17, 2025, the Easter days in Frankfurt and the entire Rhein-Main region announced with inconsistent weather. The German Weather Service (DWD) warns for the Maundy Thursday of showers, strong gusts in high areas as well as thunderstorms and heavy rain in the evening. The temperatures fluctuate between 8 and 14 degrees and drops between 7 and 2 degrees at night. In the coming days, sometimes extreme weather situations can be expected in many parts of Germany.

On Good Friday, the weather will be very cloudy and will rain at first. After all, it should largely dry in the evening, with the maximum temperatures at 8 to 12 degrees. For Easter Saturday, the DWD forecasts cloudy to cloudy weather, with sun is also expected in southern Hesse. The temperatures here rise to a pleasant 16 to 19 degrees, in high layers to about 14 degrees.

weather extreme and their causes

The Easter Sunday starts cheerfully, but it is increasingly cloudy to cloudy during the day. Maximum values ​​of 18 to 22 degrees could be reached before rain with thunderstorms and heavy rain pulls up again in the evening. Weather expert Dominik Jung indicates the extreme weather jumps in April. These are typical, but in this intensity a warning signal for the increasing moments of weather extremes, which are reinforced by climate change.

In Germany, strong temperature differences can be observed in Germany on Maundy Thursday. In the west and in the middle, maximum values ​​between 8 and 18 degrees can be expected, while it can even get up to 28 degrees in the east. These differences result from a pronounced low pressure zone that extends from North Africa to Italy to the British Isles. Cold air comes to Germany and meets warm currents to Scandinavia, which further influences the weather systems.

changes due to climate change

Current studies, as reported by the authors and publisher of the DWD, show that extreme weather events are increasing in places where they were not previously known. In Germany, this leads to an increase in heat waves, while strict frosts decrease. These developments are described as clear and scientifically secured. The likelihood of new temperature records increases without the risk of completely disappearing cold winter and cool summer.

The weather extreme is particularly striking last year when North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate were affected by severe flood events. An attribution study illustrates that climate change affects the likelihood of heavy rain events and thus brings long -term consequences for the weather in Germany.