Increasingly turbulent weather in Germany's south is just another sign of Europe's largest economy getting ruffled by climate change. Here, a Mercedes-Benz star logo stands on a snow-covered automobile in Berlin, Germany. (Photographer: Adam Berry/Bloomberg News)
(Bloomberg) — Swimmers at the Lusshardtsee lake about 60 miles south of Frankfurt in Germany thought they'd found respite from the blazing sun one Sunday afternoon last summer.
Unknown to them, however, sweltering ground temperatures were forcing a column of moist air upwards to feed a weather phenomena scientists call a convective storm. Just before 4 p.m. on July 15, thunder, lightning bolts and torrential rain hit and sent startled bathers dashing for shore.
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