Extreme weather in Germany: Another snow roller covers the Alps and the Black Forest.
In addition, it remains frosty and cold.
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Weather in Germany *
: Heavy
snowfalls
and huge amounts of
fresh snow
paralyzed
entire regions in southern
Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria
and
Saxony
.
Now the
German Weather Service
warns
again: For the
Alps
and in the
Black Forest
, more
snow masses have been
announced.
This
news ticker about the weather in Germany
is updated regularly.
Here you will also find all information about the
weather in Bavaria
.
Update January 18, 9:14:
In many parts of Germany which remains
weather
on
winter
- and wet.
The German Weather Service (DWD) has issued a
storm warning again
: Heavy
snowfall has been
announced
for the Alps and the Black Forest
.
Severe weather warning for Germany: Heavy snowfall in the Alps and the Black Forest
A few flakes also fall in the east and southeast.
However, some of these can turn into sleet and freezing rain.
Therefore, the warning
DWD
before
smoothness
on the streets.
In the north-east of the country there is also a
risk of black ice in
the morning
, triggered by freezing drizzle.
In addition, it remains frosty cold.
During the day, announcing the DWD in the mountains, at the edge of the Alps and in the far east
permafrost
on.
It gets really tapping again at night - with up to minus six degrees on the edge of the Alps.
Update from January 17, 10:03 p.m.:
At the edge of the Alps, the
warning level of the German weather service
remains
red and orange
.
Especially in the
Allgäu there
is the
official severe weather warning
of heavy snowfall *.
Up to
50 centimeters of fresh snow are
expected
on Monday night
.
A similar snow roller is approaching the Alps and the Black Forest.
Only in the
northeast
and
extreme west
does the winter weather remain completely unproblematic.
Almost the entire Federal Republic of Germany is
facing frost and slipperiness
.
Snow roller causes chaos: Even landslides are possible - after the death drama in the forest, there are now new warnings
Update from January 15, 12:19 p.m.:
The
snow roller
causes
real traffic
chaos
on the
edge of the Alps
, in the
Allgäu
, in the
Black Forest
and Bavarian Oberland: In the morning there was
a traffic jam of around 500 vehicles
on
Autobahn 96 near Lindau
because some trucks got stuck had.
Between
Kempten and Geisenried
, almost 40 of them couldn't
move
at all on the federal highway.
The police in the
Allgäu
asked "to urgently avoid all journeys that are not absolutely necessary".
Truck
drivers in
particular
should therefore put on
snow chains
and wait, according to the request of the emergency services, but they hardly found any parking spaces at the rest stops.
On the
national road 317 in Stühlingen
spending had dozens of them the night on Friday in their vehicles because the snow from the streets could not be eliminated.
It was already jammed in the
Schwarzwald-Baar district
- the traffic chaos continued into the
Waldshut district
.
The
emergency services also had to struggle with chaotic conditions
around
Freiburg
: roads had to be closed, buses replaced the trams.
On Friday, the police again issued an urgent
warning
not to underestimate
the dangers that the
masses of snow
bring - and this
warning
does not only apply to
road traffic
.
Numerous trees could not withstand the snow loads sufficiently and thus also become
dangerous for
pedestrians
.
This is also proven by a tragic accident in
the Lörrach district
: near Wittlingen, a 72-year-old woman was walking her dog when she killed a tree.
Her son found her very hypothermic in the forest on Thursday evening.
Although she could still be reanimated by the police on site, she died a little later in the hospital.
Red Alert: Severe weather warnings issued for Friday
In the mountains in particular, however, there is sometimes the
second highest avalanche warning level
- with the risk of spontaneous self-releases.
In the
district of Emmendingen in the Black Forest
, a road has already had to be completely closed
because
there is fear of a
landslide
due to the masses of snow.
In the course of Friday morning,
up to 20 centimeters of fresh snow should fall
, especially in
southwest Germany and in the foothills of the Alps
.
In the
southwest of Baden-Württemberg
you can expect up to 50 centimeters, in
Oberallgäu to Garmisch-Partenkirchen
even 60 centimeters of fresh snow.
For the
districts of Lindau, Oberallgäu, Ostallgäu and Garmisch-Partenkirchen
, the
severe weather warning of
the red alert (level 3) was issued - on the other hand, alert level 2 is in the following German districts:
Ortenaukreis
District Emmendingen
District Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald and City Freiburg
District Lörrach
District Waldshut
Black Forest-Baar District
District Rottweil
District Freudenstadt
Zollernalbkreis
District Tuttlingen
District Constance
District Sigmaringen
Lake Constance
District District Ravensburg
Original message from January 14, 2021:
Munich / Lake Constance / Zollernalbkreis / Erzgebirge -
On January 14th,
a real
roller of snow
rolls over
southern Germany
and the low mountain ranges in the east of the Federal Republic.
In some regions and counties, after huge amounts, sometimes nothing goes on the streets.
Extreme
weather *
in Germany
!
Weather in Germany: Snow chaos on the Swabian Alb, in the Allgäu and in the mountains
The
Swabian Alb
and the foothills of the
Black Forest
in the Rottweil district
were particularly affected by the heavy snowfall on Thursday night
.
For example, traffic in the
Zollernalb district
(around 90 kilometers south of
Stuttgart
) and on the ascents to the Alb in the Reutlingen district was completely paralyzed
by partly
over 50 centimeters of fresh snow and slippery ice
.
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As the
ZAK
reports, trucks were parked across, long traffic jams formed everywhere.
Thousands of people could not drive to their workplaces unless they
were in the home office anyway
because of the
coronavirus pandemic
*
.
Weather in Germany: Federal road between Wangen and Ravensburg closed, access to A96 tight
But also in the
Württemberg Allgäu
several traffic connections had to be closed because of the
amount
of
snow
, for example the main road from Wangen to
Ravensburg in Upper Swabia
.
For most of the day,
a long traffic jam
formed between neighboring
Lindau on Lake Constance
and
Munich
on the A96 in the Allgäu.
“There are 500 vehicles standing there and can't go any further,” said Thomas Steur, head of the Lindau Police Inspection, according to
schwaebische.de
on Thursday morning
: “And our car is behind the clearing vehicle.” No longer even said clearing vehicles came through, driveways to the
A96
were
temporarily closed
in the
Lake Constance area
and in the southwestern
Allgäu
.
Weather in Germany: Heavy snowfalls expected between the Ore Mountains and the Baltic Sea
For example, in the Ore Mountains in Saxony, the situation on the streets on Thursday was
tense
because of the large
amount of snow
and the
slipperiness
.
Trucks got stuck, drivers had to park their trucks because nothing was going on.
Striking:
Heavy
snowfalls
are also
expected
on Friday
between the
Ore Mountains
and the
Baltic Sea
.
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