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Crocuses on a meadow in Halle an der Saale
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The influence of a high pressure area is expected to ensure spring-like temperatures in parts of Germany from the middle of the week.
Already on Tuesday it will be very mild: "With values up to 17 degrees, spring can be clearly felt," said Sonja Stöckle from the German Weather Service (DWD).
Persistent rain will fall from the west on Tuesday.
In the far north and south it will mostly remain dry.
The last drops will fall in the southeast on Wednesday.
In the afternoon the clouds will clear and it will be up to 20 degrees warm.
A band of clouds and rain will pass through the northwest on Thursday.
Germany without clouds
In the southeast it will remain sunny all day.
Usually it gets 13 to 19 degrees warm, but only in the middle of the day.
Meteorologist Stöckle: »In the early hours, the winter jacket has to be unpacked when there is widespread light frost, and the T-shirt for the lunch break.«
It had already been clear and sunny in large parts of Germany in the past few days - but the temperatures at night were sometimes below freezing.
The DWD shared a photo taken by the US space agency Nasa on Friday, which showed almost no clouds over the Federal Republic.
"Germany was practically cloud-free," wrote the weather service.
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