Heat, sun, but also thunderstorm: According to the German Weather Service (DWD), on Saturday in Germany it will be “sunny and hot longer in the east and southeast”. The clouds are increasing from the west, however, and the DWD predicts “in several seasons from southwest to northeast, sometimes strong thunderstorms with heavy rain around 20 mm in a short time, small-grain hail and gusts of wind, reaching the northeast in the evening”.
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The temperatures reach 24 to 29 degrees. On the night of Sunday, the showers and thunderstorms head east.
June 27: Dormouse Day
So far, so not unusual for a summer day. However, this Saturday is June 27th – and thus dormouse. On this day of the year, farmers’ rules should decide how the weather will be in the next seven weeks. “The weather on the dormouse is ordered for seven weeks,” it says.
However, meteorologists give the all-clear: From their point of view, it is not the weather on a single day that is decisive for the rest of summer, but the weather situation throughout the period from late June to early July.
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The name Siebenschläfer goes back to an old legend about seven sleeping brothers. The young men who were persecuted because of their Christian beliefs are said to have fled to a cave near Ephesus in what is now Turkey in 251 and were walled in there. After almost 200 years of sleep, they are said to have been discovered alive.
The Catholic memorial day for them is June 27th in Germany. However, the original date has shifted by a few days after the Gregorian calendar reform in 1582, so that the day of the dormouse would actually only be on July 7 or 8.
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