Brutal drop in temperature: After record values, the winter comeback comes with the turnaround in the weather
Created: 01/03/2022, 4:28 PM
From: Marc Dimitriu
In Munich, temperatures will drop by 10 degrees over the next few days.
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While spring-like temperatures still prevailed over the turn of the year, winter is now coming back.
In the coming days it should be cold and uncomfortable again in Germany.
Munich - It was 15.6 degrees on New Year's Eve in Munich.
A new record, it has never been so warm at this time of year since the weather records began.
The previous record comes from 1920 (13.9 degrees).
The Bavarian capital was not the only place in Germany with record temperatures at the end of the year.
Viewed across Germany, however, new peak values were just missed.
The maximum value this year was on December 31st at 16.9 degrees in Freiburg.
The peak value of 17.0 degrees Celsius was measured in 1961 in Müllheim, Baden-Württemberg, reports the
Tagesschau
.
Spring-like weather in Germany is over - brutal temperature drop is coming
If you look at the annual ranges, the spring-like turn of the year was anything but ordinary.
But the turnaround in the weather is coming faster than some would like.
On Tuesday, January 4th, according to
wetter.com
, it will
still be mild in the south with 14 degrees in Munich and 13 degrees in Freiburg.
Further north, however, it is a bit fresher with 8 degrees in Hamburg and Dresden.
In Berlin it was only 7 degrees on Tuesday.
On January 5, the big drop in temperature of 10 degrees at the edge of the Alps and in Breisgau to 3 to 4 degrees followed.
The temperatures in the northern half are similar.
In addition, there are snow and sleet showers, and at low altitudes there are also rain showers.
Individual thunderstorms are also threatening the North Sea.
Winter comeback in Germany: Snow and frost in the south - cold and wet in the north
In the night of Thursday, more showers are to be expected in the extreme northeast, sometimes as snow in deep areas.
Severe frost is possible in the Alpine valleys.
The
German Weather Service (DWD)
warns of the risk of ice.
During the day on January 6th there will be more snow, sleet or sleet showers in the south.
In the northeast, however, it remains sunny and dry at times.
The maximum values are 0 to 7 degrees.
In the night, sub-zero temperatures are to be expected again.
Winter is back and according to the predictions it will stay for the time being.
(md)
