In Schärding and Linz

Summer is a long time coming

The Schärding fire department set up mobile flood protection on Saturday afternoon.

(Bild: FF Schärding)

The heavy rainfall on Saturday caused the levels of the Danube and Inn to rise. Flood protection was therefore put in place in Schärding and Linz, but only as a precaution in the provincial capital and the situation also appears to be under control in the Innviertel. Warmer temperatures are expected from the middle of next week.

May is over - and despite the current bad weather, it was once again too warm and a little too dry. June, on the other hand, is off to a wet start. After yesterday's heavy rainfall, river levels rose, especially in our Bavarian neighbors and in Tyrol.

Slight flooding expected
This also had an impact on Upper Austria: in Schärding, flood protection was therefore set up on Saturday afternoon to prepare for the "slight flooding of the Inn area" that fire department commander Markus Furtner expected. The same was true in Linz, where phase 1 of the mobile flood protection system was set up in Alturfahr-West. "The peak of the first flood wave is expected on Sunday morning with a level of around 5.50 meters in Linz. The Danube would only overflow its banks at a level of 6.80 meters," informed the city council.

How the weather will continue
After another heavy, sporadic shower is possible on Monday, the weather should become much friendlier from the middle of the week. "On Wednesday, temperatures are already moving towards 25 degrees. In the lowlands, there is the best chance of longer, dry spells," says Alexander Ohms, meteorologist at GeoSphere Austria.