Heat warnings are in place in many regions in Germany

The heat wave is also expected to hit Germany in the middle of the week.

The German Weather Service predicts local temperatures of up to 40 degrees Celsius. Wednesday will be the hottest day of the summer so far, according to the DWD. Heat warnings were already in place in many regions on Monday. The risk of forest fires is also increasing.

Overall, June in Germany was once again exceptionally warm and far too dry. According to the DWD, only 61 liters of rain per square meter fell in the first month of summer, almost a third less than usual.
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- VS Shots of employees of the DRK Hitzebus Stuttgart

- 0'08 Carolin Götz, DRK Hitzebus

- 0'12 SOUNDBITE (German) Carolin Götz, DRK Hitzebus Stuttgart: "We offer a conversation, we are also a social contact. If necessary, we provide first aid, but basically the first thing we do is distribute water."

- Staff from the DRK heat bus and passers-by

- 0'29 VS Shots Robert Bosch Hospital Stuttgart

- 0'42 SOUNDBITE (German) Mark Dominik Alscher, Managing Director at Robert Bosch Hospital Stuttgart: "The problem is that we can actually regulate temperatures well within a certain range. But if it stays high for a long time, the temperature regulation is disturbed."

- 0'55 Building in Würzburg in Bavaria

- 0'56 Man with portable fan in Würzburg

- 0'59 People in a cafe, in Würzburg

- 1'03 People in a pedestrian zone, in Würzburg

- 1'06 Pigeons drinking from a puddle

- SOUNDBITE (German)Tim Staeger, ARD-Wetterkompetenzzentrum in Frankfurt: "The heatwave will reach its peak on Wednesday with temperatures widely above 35 degrees in the west, in the Rhine-Main area and in the Ruhr area even above 39 degrees. However, this is not yet the record for Germany as a whole. That is 41.2 degrees, measured in Duisburg on July 29, 2019.

- 1'25 DRK Employees from the heat bus, in Stuttgart

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