Weather in Germany: Winter is coming back - bringing snow, frost and smoothness for the south and wind for the north. It stays cold.
- The spring-like temperatures of the past few days have been deceptive.
- Winter is back today.
- This has different effects on the individual regions - also in the next few days.
Update from March 30th, 10:40 am: While you could still enjoy warm sun rays on Saturday, Sunday no longer had so much to do with sunny, spring-like weather.
Even at the start of the week, it is quite fresh in large parts of Germany. As the German Weather Service (DWD) predicts for Monday, a strong high will direct arctic air to Germany, which will result in a late winter impression for us.
On Tuesday it will mostly be sunny and dry. Only in the eastern and south-eastern low mountain ranges, according to DWD forecasts, snow showers can still occur. The highest values on the Rhine are between four and eleven degrees. In the south, however, frosty temperatures down to minus eight degrees are expected again. On the coasts, a refreshing south-west to west wind with gusts of wind, sometimes stormy gusts, can be expected. Individual gusts are also predicted by the DWD for the Black Forest and the southwest.
Storm on the Baltic Sea
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Weather in Germany: Coronavirus affects the weather forecast
Weather expert Dominik Jung also raised the alarm on Saturday and explained why the coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 * can now even have a negative impact on weather forecasts. "Now it even makes our weather forecasts worse," he said, as op-online.de * reported.
The problem is that the virus currently has less data. The reason for this is the worldwide flight restrictions caused by the corona virus. Airplanes collect various data and parameters about the weather and then pass them on centrally. This is currently being minimized by the effects of the corona virus *.
Our first announcement on March 29, 12:56 p.m .: Weather in Germany: Incredible turning - winter with fresh snow and arctic polar air expected
Wiesbaden / Munich: If the weather * showed its best spring side in the last few days, we have to cope with a lot today: the temperatures plunge into the basement, there is snow * and snow, the north blows up the wind. "Winter may not yet give up," says the German Weather Service:
It's fresh outside! Yesterday in the south 20 ° C locally, today mostly single-digit values. In addition a few drops of rain, sometimes also wet flakes. Winter may not give up yet! / V pic.twitter.com/wDug36kRww
- DWD (@DWD_presse) March 29, 2020For the north, the German Weather Service even issues an official warning * of level 2: stormy gusts are approaching the coast.
Weather in Germany: High from Iceland brings us the winter relapse
The reason for the radical change in weather is a high south of Iceland. Arctic polar air flows at its edges - and this provides us with a drop in temperature and the like.
While the strong gusts of wind in the north subside in the afternoon, snow falls here in the evening. The snowfall area moves across the middle of Germany to the south, where there will be snowfall especially at night.
Since temperatures generally drop - to minus one degree (near the North Sea) and minus eleven degrees (in the Thuringian Forest) - it is common to expect smoothness, as Wetter.net predicts. For sensitive plants, this means: absolutely bring to safety. According to the German Weather Service, the Thuringian Forest and the Alps can expect up to ten centimeters of fresh snow.
Weather in Germany: So the coming week
The weather experts continue to expect rather cool temperatures for the coming week: Although the south is expecting friendly and cheerful sections on Monday and Tuesday and only in the north it can continue to drizzle or even drop individual flakes from the sky - but at night there is sometimes severe frost with up to to minus 14 degrees in the Alps. This trend continues throughout the week: on Friday, the rain from the north then reaches the south. In general, it wo n't be over 11 degrees .
* Merkur.de and op-online.de are parts of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network.
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