Thunderstorms and heavy rain have taken care of in the Frankfurt airport for delays and failures. On the evening of the operation back to normal. In Parts of Germany, other severe weather threaten.
A violent Storm has affected operations at Frankfurt airport for several hours. In the evening, should have the processes to a spokesman, according to re-normalized. “The operation runs smoothly,” he said.
Earlier of 69 Starts and 70 landings had been cancelled. For the day of around 1500 aircraft movements were in Frankfurt originally planned. According to a statement by a spokesperson of the operator, Fraport, the German air navigation service established for some time, a so-called “zero control”. Machines that were already in the air, were to land or diverted. At airports in the European environment, no planes in the direction of Frankfurt started but all the while. The work on the apron has been temporarily discontinued.
Dark clouds hanging over the foothills of the Taunus.
Landslides and forest fires
lightning, Thunder and rain have also led in North Rhine-Westphalia to train cancellations and delays. On the highways, the traffic was building up at up to 300 kilometers. Between the Ruhr area and the Rhineland in the railway traffic was after a lightning strike in Mühlheim only possible to a limited extent. Trains could not run on the main route between Duisburg and Dortmund due to unusual signals and soft positions only slowly or fell out. In Düsseldorf was struck by lightning in a S-Bahn and paralysed the traffic temporarily.
In the area of Pforzheim in Baden-Württemberg fell, according to an estimate by the German weather service selectively up to 40 litres of rain per square meter. Between Pforzheim-dill stone white and Unterreichenbach has been in the short term blocked a road after a Landslide.
In Berlin and Brandenburg fought the forces first of all with the heat. In Berlin-Grunewald burned in the afternoon about 20,000 square meters of forest floor and undergrowth. For Brandenburg 35 degrees Celsius were announced. There village/berken brück came in Hennicke almost 50 hectares of forest on fire. On the highway 10 on the Western Berliner Ring, the section between the grid sites has been blocked West Berlin and the Havelland.