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Horrible: take your umbrella with you over Easter
Photo: Sebastian Gollnow / dpa
After the almost summery temperatures of the past few days, which were unusual for the season, the weather over the Easter weekend will be cooler and more unfriendly again.
On Holy Saturday there are initially longer, sunny sections in addition to loose cumulus clouds, as the German Weather Service (DWD) announced;
however, the maximum values only rise to 8 to 14 degrees.
Individual showers can occur between Vogtland and Lausitz as well as on the Alps.
On Easter Sunday the sun still peeks out in the middle and in the south when it is cloudy.
In the north, thick cloud fields appear, but the whole country mostly remains dry with temperatures between 8 and 14 degrees, on the Upper Rhine even up to 16 degrees.
On the night of Monday, cloud fields in the north and west approached, it could rain.
In the south-east it remains clear, and temperatures drop to minus 3 degrees at night.
April mix with snow and sleet
Monday brings a typical April mix of rain, sleet, snow, short thunderstorms, squalls - depending on the part of the country, the weather has everything in its luggage.
It will rain from the northwest to the center southwards, and it will snow above 600 meters.
Only in the east do meteorologists hardly expect any precipitation.
Later in the day there is a transition from the North Sea to showers and brief thunderstorms, sometimes down to deep layers of sleet and sleet.
In the north and west the temperatures rise to a maximum of 10 degrees, in the east and south to 15 degrees.
There can be gusts of wind in the mountains.
On Tuesday and Wednesday it had become unusually warm in large parts of the country, with up to 26 degrees.
The spring weather had drawn many people out into the fresh air and parks.
On Tuesday there were large gatherings of people on Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin, among other places.
bam / dpa