Heat records have fallen – no rain

. The hottest spot was in the canton of Aargau in the region of Beznau, Leibstadt and Würenlingen at 35.8 degrees, as meteorologist meteorologist Roland Mühlebach told the news agency Keystone. SDA said.

The highest at 41.5 degrees

At Zurich Airport, too, it was very hot at 35.7 degrees. In Schaffhausen, 35.5 degrees were reached. It was also hot at 35.5 ° C in Cevio TI in the Maggia Valley, where the record temperature recorded in Switzerland this year was broken on Monday.

On the summits of the heat of the summer of 2003, the temperatures are still far away. On August 11, 2003 at Grono GR in Misox, 41.5 degrees had been measured. This place still holds the record for the measured temperature in Switzerland.

No rain

According to Swiss Weather, in the coming days it will not be hot anymore. Temperatures are expected to drop about 1 degree on August 1st and 2 to 3 degrees on Thursday. The storm increases in the mountains and locally in the lowlands.

Temperatures rise slightly on Fridays and weekends. And in the next week expect that meteorologists will exceed 30 degrees. The urgent rain on the national and prolonged scale is still not in sight. The drought is likely to be exacerbated.

Detailed weather information is available here

Extended fire ban

On Tuesday, the canton of Glarus also banned fires on the outside. The Department of Forests and Natural Hazards assesses the risk of forest fire as being important in the face of heat and lack of rainfall. It is also forbidden to burn fireworks and to throw out smokers.

Previously, Aargau, Baselland, Solothurn, the cantons of Central Switzerland, Ticino, Valais, Graubünden and Eastern Switzerland (except Schaffhausen) Prohibition of fire imposed on the outside In the cantons of Basel-Stadt , Bern, Jura, Schaffhausen, Vaud, Zurich, there is a fire ban in the forest and near forests. The exceptions are the cantons of Friborg, Geneva and Neuchâtel.