Weeks of stifling heat driven by an African anticyclone are giving way to thunderstorms and falling temperatures across parts of central and southern Europe.
In Germany, the Deutscher Wetterdienst forecast sultry highs of up to 33 °C in the south on Sunday before a line of heavy showers and thunderstorms — some potentially severe — sweeps from the Eifel to Lusatia. Northern and central areas will stay mostly dry, with highs around 27 °C. Temperatures are expected to remain below 30 °C nationwide on Monday, with further scattered rain on Tuesday.
In Italy, thunderstorms arrived Sunday across the Alps and Prealps, spreading to central and southern highlands by afternoon. A more organized system is forecast for Monday, bringing intense storms to northern regions including Lombardy, Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia before reaching central and southern areas by evening. Sunshine should return mid-week before a second Atlantic disturbance brings further storms from Thursday, ending the prolonged heatwave.