The haily rains in Switzerland cause tremendous damage

Western Switzerland has been most affected. But the above-mentioned security has also received reports of hail damage in the German-speaking part, such as the Bern cantons, Cyril and Schwyz, has announced on Monday the security institution in a statement.

The affected cultures are mainly cereals, corn and potatoes. On Friday, Saturday, but the cited regions were also the target of severe hail storms on Sunday. The Luzerni region has been underwater, and SRF Meteo has numbered about 25,000 lightnings in the sky.

This hail episode is taking place for the third time this summer. The previous one, having two weeks ago, had cost about 4 million francs, says security, which had received about 800 statements of damage in the agriculture sector.

Beyond agricultural damage, damage to the building sector has revealed much more significant numbers. So the storms that took place two weeks ago caused the expense of about 85 million francs that would have to pay for the insurance of A real estate, which received over 4,000 requests.

And on June 1st, it was the Thon region of (BE), which was subjected to a hailstorm. Construction security in Bern has estimated damage to 15 million francs. This is one of the biggest sums in recent years. /Okinfo. ch