The weather is becoming extreme: Meteorologists are expecting storms, black ice due to freezing rain and heavy snowfall in cooler areas, especially on Wednesday in some regions in central Germany. According to the German Weather Service (DWD), Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, Thuringia and Saxony are particularly affected by the storm – at least in some parts of the country.
With frosty temperatures around freezing point, several ice accidents occurred on Monday evening and Tuesday night – but now the situation is becoming even more dangerous, because warm air with rain is coming from the south – and it then freezes on the streets and paths.
The portal “Wetter.de” warns of an “intense borderline weather situation”. Low “Gertrude” will be on the way from Wednesday, after High Bonifaz had previously given us some calmer weather. This low is giving us a “significant danger situation due to winter storms”. Colder air will dominate in the north, but it will be warmer in the south. However, since some of the ground is still frozen, there is a risk of black ice in many places.
Deutsche Bahn assumes that the extreme weather will have a significant impact on regional and long-distance transport, as the company said on Tuesday.
In a video, the weather service DWD urgently warns of a dangerous situation with snow and freezing rain. The meteorologists expect that an air mass boundary will run across Germany on Wednesday. Extreme black ice is expected in parts of Saarland as well as in some regions of Rhineland-Palatinate, southern Hesse and northern Bavaria. Because it rains there with negative temperatures at the same time.
Difficult weather conditions must also be expected further east, even if they are not quite as extreme as further west, the DWD video continued.
According to the forecasts, it will also snow heavily in an area that includes the Eifel, Central Hesse and Thuringia.
In the coming days, black ice is likely to remain in many areas of Germany, estimates the DWD, which issued further warnings of slippery conditions and snowfall for several districts, including the Alzey-Worms district in Hesse and the Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Freiburg districts Baden-Württemberg.
Since the weather models are not stable, it is urgently recommended to keep up to date with the current weather, advise the meteorologists.
The maps below show the current weather events.
The map below shows the current types of precipitation in different colors. Lightning ice, sleet, hail, rain, snow and sleet are shown. In regions with sleet it can become dangerously slippery.
The map is provided by the wetter.de portal, which, like stern, belongs to RTL Deutschland.
The interactive map below shows where precipitation is currently falling. You can also view the forecast for a later date using the timeline at the bottom of the graphic. At the top right, the level displayed can also be changed to, for example, temperature or wind.
The service is provided by Windy.com. The makers use the model from the “European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts” for their representations and forecasts.
Sources: DWD, “Wetter.de” / with material from dpa
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