The snowfall of the past few days is followed by the cold.
Permafrost determines the weather at the weekend in Bavaria.
In addition, there is a risk of avalanches in the Alps.
Update from January 16, 11:07 a.m.:
A snowy weekend is
ahead of
most of Bavaria.
As the German Weather Service (DWD) announced on Saturday, flakes can fall from the sky, especially in the west and south of the Free State.
The lows are between minus two and minus eleven degrees.
There is widespread slight permafrost.
Sunday will also be overcast and it may snow in many places.
An offshoot of Tief Flavio brings cold Atlantic air to parts of Bavaria on Sunday.
At minus five to zero degrees it can be slippery in many places.
Update from January 15, 4:17 p.m.:
Not only the railways had to struggle with significant disruptions in operation, in many places nothing went on the roads either.
As the
police headquarters in Swabia South wrote
in a press release, a total of 76 accidents occurred yesterday (January 14) during the high phase of the snow roller between midnight and 3.30 p.m.
Five people were injured.
The southern regions of the Allgäu and the cities of
Lindau
,
Kempten
and
Kaufbeuren
were particularly affected
.
In the evening the situation relaxed again.
In the
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
district, too,
nothing went on the streets in many places.
For example, state road 2060 towards Linderhof had to be partially closed.
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The snowman from the village of Brünst near Lehrberg is around four meters high.
© NEWS5 / Weddig
Elsewhere people were happy about the white splendor.
In the small village of Brünst near Lehrberg (district of Ansbach), two friends set themselves the task of building the largest
snowman
in the area.
In the end, Frosty measured four meters.
The men simply took paving stones to shape their mouths and eyes.
The nose consists of a KG tube.
His head is adorned with an old cabbage barrel from his grandma.
"I also needed a bit of positive distraction from the whole
Corona *
", Daniel Büchler
told news5.de
.
It took the friends three hours to build the
giant snowman
.
With the announced icy temperatures, the residents should benefit from it for a long time.
Weather in Bavaria: Snow roller led to massive disruptions in the railway
(First report)
Munich
- as is well known, snow is part of winter like sweet mustard is part of white sausage.
But too much of it can quickly lead to problems.
Almost the entire
south of Bavaria
is currently
struggling with this.
It snowed almost incessantly for the last 24 hours and sometimes a
snow cover
of up to 60 centimeters came together.
This not only strained the muscles when shoveling snow, but also the traffic.
On many
railway lines
nothing worked anymore because of the snow masses.
And now new adversity is already heralding itself.
Weather in Bavaria: Avalanche danger in the Alps is great to considerable
After the precipitation * slowly came to an end in the southwest of the Free State around Friday noon, we can start cleaning up.
For example,
trees that had fallen over
due to the
snow
led to a rail line closure between Garmisch-Partenkirchen * and the Tyrolean town of Reutte.
But the
fresh snow
does not only pose a threat to traffic.
The
danger of avalanches
in the Bavarian Alps in
particular
has increased enormously.
The avalanche warning service has issued the second highest warning level for the south-western Alps - "
Great danger of avalanches
".
In the east the danger is still considerable.
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In the Bavarian Alps, there is sometimes a high to considerable risk of avalanches.
© Screenshot Bavarian Avalanche Warning Service
"The situation is tense," said the avalanche warning service in Bavaria.
Many
avalanches had
already
gone off
on Thursday (January 14)
.
There were already
first
avalanche victims
to complain about.
Two hikers were hit
by a slab
at Lenggries * (Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district) on the
Brauneck
at around 1350 meters.
They were partially buried in the process.
"The fresh snow of the last few days came off the Brauneck summit slope, which was heavily loaded with drift snow," said the avalanche warning service.
However, the two
ski tourers
were able to be rescued from the snow unharmed.
Weather in Bavaria: The snow is followed by the cold
Numerous excursion
locations have
already been closed
due to the
danger of avalanches
.
In Garmisch-Partenkirchen, they want to maintain this lock "at least over the weekend".
In
Oberstdorf
im Allgäu, many hiking trails have also been closed to ski tourers.
The path to the Marienbrücke near Neuschwanstein Castle in
Schwangau
is also no longer passable.
There will probably only be relaxation in the course of the coming week.
Then the
thaw should set
in.
Before that, however, it will be really cold again in the Free State.
At the weekend the
temperatures
hardly
rise
above freezing point.
In some valleys in the foothills of the Alps, according to
wetter.net
, it can be
up to minus 20 degrees at night.
It is also getting icy cold in the state capital of Munich *.
Here the temperatures can drop into the double-digit minus range.
In the rest of Bavaria, sun and clouds alternate.
During the course of Sunday, a new
snow
band will
pull in
.
Be careful on the streets.
The permafrost can quickly turn slippery.
(tel / dpa) * Merkur.de and tz.de are part of the Ippen digital network.
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