US EditionGermany Swelters as European Heat Wave Moves Eastwards
- A severe heatwave spread eastwards across Germany on July 2–3, 2025, causing extreme temperatures and transport disruptions nationwide.
- The prolonged hot and dry weather stressed Germany's aging and overloaded infrastructure, which Deutsche Bahn CEO Richard Lutz linked to deteriorating train punctuality.
- Heat-Related effects included motorways buckling near Bremen, embankment fires delaying northern rail services, and regional lines operating on a limited basis in western Germany.
- Temperatures reached close to 40°C in places, with the Elbe river in Dresden falling to 64 centimeters, and Deutsche Bahn reported that just under 64% of long-distance trains ran on time.
- Authorities issued heat warnings, travel disruptions persisted, and disruptions highlighted urgent infrastructure challenges as extreme heat becomes more frequent due to climate change.
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Roads burst, trains fail, people collapse. The heat wave reveals a bitter failure of Germany's infrastructure. A weather column by Dominik Jung.
Berlin, Germany. After hitting Spain, Portugal and France with extreme temperatures, the early heat wave that overwhelms millions of Europeans moved this Wednesday to the east of the continent, little used to hot peaks.In Germany, the most populous EU country, one could even reach 40 °C in some locality, as in Mannheim, in the south-west, according to the national meteorological service.In Berlin, where a maximum of 37 °C was expected, most of t…
ARD and ZDF react to the record heat with special broadcasts – and show how the glow heat changes people's everyday lives in Germany.
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Germany swelters as European heatwave moves eastwards
A punishing early summer heatwave that has already scorched western and southern Europe spread east Wednesday, bringing extreme weather warnings to Germany and reportedly causing motorways to buckle.
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