Germany and Belgium experience severe thunderstorms and flooding

The extreme weather follows soaring temperatures in both countries, with Germany's Rhineland-Palatinate region reaching 36.5 degrees Celsius.

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00:00Severe thunderstorms are battering Western Europe, with heavy rainfall causing floods

00:06in Germany and Belgium.

00:10In Germany, the extreme weather follows the country's hottest day of the year, as temperatures

00:15peaked at 36.5 degrees in Rhineland-Palatinate.

00:21The intense heat triggered heavy rain, storms and hail across Germany, with the North Rhine-Westphalia,

00:27Lower Saxony, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg regions the most affected.

00:36Emergency services were dispatched to deal with flooded cellars and trees, and in Bavaria

00:42the fire service was deployed after a train collided with a fallen tree.

00:51In Belgium, an umber weather warning has been issued for storms in the Limburg and Liege

00:56provinces, while the rest of the country remains under a yellow warning.

01:02The Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium says the August rainfall record has already

01:07been broken, and several streets have been closed in Brussels and the Antwerp province

01:11because of flooding.