Onset of winter in Germany: In many places, December was ushered in with snow and black ice and in many regions resulted in sometimes severe accidents.
Several people were seriously injured.
Just in time for the
beginning of winter
, the weather in Germany * changed.
Snow and black ice
resulted in serious accidents in many places, some of which were seriously injured.
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news ticker
is updated regularly.
Offenbach - Just in time for the meteorological
beginning of winter on December 1st, there
is a clear
change
in
weather
in Germany.
With temperatures around freezing point, Tuesday started in many places with
snow or sleet
.
Black ice and freezing moisture paralyzed traffic in numerous regions and sometimes caused serious accidents.
Weather change: Snow roller reaches Germany
With this, the
snow roller
forecast by some weather models seems
to have reached Germany.
In the north and northeast, one to three centimeters of fresh snow was possible - in the low mountain ranges up to 25 centimeters.
Heavy snowfall was predicted on the Alps and this should last until Wednesday.
In the Allgäu, up to 20 centimeters of fresh snow can fall.
From
Wednesday afternoon
, the
snowfall
in the south could then increase again
sharply
.
A Genoa low brings moist Mediterranean air, thanks to low temperatures it snows.
Up to one meter of fresh snow could fall in the high Alps by Sunday.
Onset of winter: DWD with weather warning for half of Germany
The
German Weather Service
(DWD) currently warns * in its warning card, except in the northern half and in the west, in many places of slippery conditions due to snow, ice and freezing moisture.
In the south in particular, snow is to be expected down to the depths, and freezing rain in the southeast.
The DWD warns here especially against widespread slippery conditions.
During the day, the snowfall slowly subsides.
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The DWD warns of black ice (orange) and light snowfall (yellow), especially in southern Germany.
© Screenshot DWD
Weather in Germany: numerous black ice accidents with seriously injured people
Especially in
Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate
, the interior ministries reported
heavy snowfall
on Tuesday night
, which
resulted in
several dozen
accidents
with several seriously injured people.
The North Hesse police headquarters in Kassel reported 13 weather-related accidents with a total of
nine seriously injured by
early Tuesday morning
.
According to a spokesman, the last serious accident was reported at around 1.00 a.m., and nothing major had happened in the following hours.
There were around 25 accidents during the night in the area of responsibility of the
South Hesse
Presidium
around Darmstadt.
A tractor-trailer skid on the B47 near Bensheim and the trailer was torn off.
The road was temporarily closed due to salvage work.
The police mostly attribute the accidents from the night to the lack of winter tires.
Weather in Germany: slush and slippery ice cause accidents in Bavaria
Snow, slush and slippery ice also caused many accidents in Bavaria * - most of them ended with no harm.
A police spokesman in Upper Bavaria said there were more accidents with sheet metal damage in rush hour traffic, and some people were slightly injured.
The police from Central Franconia also reported numerous traffic obstructions due to slipperiness and broken down cars.
Onset of winter in Germany: black ice accidents in Baden-Württemberg
In Baden-Württemberg too, the weather caused problems on the roads.
Around Pforzheim, for example, the police counted eight accidents due to slipperiness by early Tuesday morning.
Snow in Germany: Several vehicles crash in Lower Saxony
In southern
Lower Saxony
, several vehicles crashed due to black ice on Autobahn 7: On a sloping stretch between the Drammetal motorway triangle and the Lutterberg junction, it crashed at least three times during the night, as a police spokesman said early Tuesday morning.
The lane to the north was temporarily completely closed, the opposite lane was only passable in one lane.
According to the police, there were no injuries.
Onset of winter in Germany - Deutsche Bahn gives the all-clear
Only on Germany's rails did the weather change initially not have any serious effects.
According to Deutsche Bahn, there were initially no major disruptions on the routes.
Weather in Germany - so will the coming days
The meteorological #winter beginning has a lot to offer today!
This morning our colleague M. Beyer measured 4 cm of #snow in #Hanau near Frankfurt am Main.
How about you
https://t.co/Uhy1HeG4qU
- DWD (@DWD_presse) December 1, 2020
It can also be dangerous on
Wednesday
night
.
Especially in the south and southwest, slippery areas due to freezing wetness or freezing drizzle can be expected again.
Even light snow pebbles have been possible in some places, according to the DWD.
In the course of the day, the maximum values then reach 3 to 7 degrees in the north and west, and -1 to 4 degrees in the south and east as well as in the higher mountains.
In the night of
Thursday it
remains slightly cloudy in the east and south-east, partly clear, free of rain.
In the rest of Germany, according to the DWD, it is foggy and cloudy and covered with snow pebbles or drizzling rain.
In some places there is another
risk of black ice
due to freezing moisture
.
From Schleswig-Holstein to North Rhine-Westphalia it cools down to 4 to 0 degrees, otherwise the temperatures reach +2 to -6 degrees.
It gets coldest in the east and in the Alps.
The centenary calendar also provides forecasts of what the weather might look like in December.
If you don't know what the centenary calendar * is all about, you can find out more here.
(va / dpa)
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