A storm is sweeping across Germany on Monday. Several people are injured by falling trees.
Long-distance rail traffic is slowed down. The storm, with some strong squalls, hit several federal states yesterday afternoon and evening. Train passengers sometimes had to endure delays of four hours - and hope that their temporarily stopped trains would continue at all. The German Weather Service had warned of locally strongstorms and widespread gusts of wind. From there there will be continuous rain locally above 1000 meters. According to the information, it could become slippery above 800 meters on Tuesday morning. The weather service has warned of light snowfall in the south of the country on Monday night and Tuesday morning, and heavy rain in the north and west on Tuesday afternoon and Tuesday evening. The rain is expected to stop by Tuesday afternoon or evening, but the snow could continue into Wednesday morning, according to the weather service. It has also warned that the storm could cause power outages in parts of Germany, especially in the west and north.