Red alert!

Warning of extreme wind speeds - then the weather takes the next turn

Created: 01/05/2022, 05:44 AM

Creators: Richard Strobl, Marc Dimitriu

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.

Update from January 4th, 8:17 a.m

.: red alert!

The German Weather Service (DWD) warns on Tuesday (January 4th) in large parts of Germany of heavy to hurricane-like gusts, thunderstorms and continuous rain.

Deep "Anette" brings a lot of moisture to Germany.

And then the snow line goes down.

Here the DWD warns of continuous stormy rain, hurricane gusts and snow

In the south, rainfall between 30 and 70 liters per square meter can be expected.

In the Saarland and parts of Rhineland-Palatinate as well as in the congestion areas of the south and south-west German low mountain ranges and in the Upper Allgäu, rain amounts of 30 to 50 liters per square meter within 18 to 24 hours.

In the northern Black Forest and the southern Black Forest (Baden-Württemberg), up to 70 liters per square meter are possible.

Hurricane gusts of around 130 km / h are also heralded on the peaks of the Black Forest, and gale-force gusts of around 110 are to be expected in the high altitudes.

During the day, gusts (60 km / h) from southwest to west increase.

In the evening the wind should weaken again.

Bavaria - hurricane gusts of up to 130 km / h and continuous rain

In Bavaria, too, it is windy in many places with sometimes stormy gusts (70 km / h).

In the higher Bavarian Forest and in the high altitudes of the Alps, storms or heavy gusts of wind (between 80 km / h and 100 km / h) are to be expected.

At the highest altitudes in the Alps, the DWD warns of hurricane gusts of up to 130 km / h.

Continuous rain warning exists for the low mountain ranges and in the Allgäu Alps.

Until Wednesday night, between 30 and 70 liters per square meter can be collected locally within 24 to 36 hours within 24 to 36 hours.

Snow line drops to 600 meters

In the night of Wednesday the snow line drops to 600 meters.

In the mountains there is a slight frost at minus 3 degrees.

Up to 10 centimeters of fresh snow is possible in stagnant locations, otherwise 2 to 5 centimeters will fall.

In the locations above about 600 meters, there are sections of slippery terrain due to snow and freezing wetness.

The foothills of the low "Ümit" from the British Isles reaches Germany.

The cold polar air lets the temperatures drop back into the frost range.

Official weather warnings: Heavy continuous rain - one region is particularly hard hit

Update from January 3, 4:59 p.m.:

A change in the weather is coming to Germany. But already on Monday it hit large parts of the country hard. The German Meteorological Service has issued official weather warnings for a number of regions. While wind gusts of up to 60 km / h are warned in the north of vpr, heavy rain in particular causes problems in many other regions.

For example, in Saarland and throughout central Germany to northern Bavaria, level 2 of a total of 4 possible warnings of continuous rain on Monday evening apply., Quantities between 30 and 45 liters per square meter can fall here. Such a warning also applies in the Alpine region and in eastern Bavaria. However, it is apparently particularly hard to hit the west of Baden-Württemberg between Pforzheim and Freudenstadt. Warning level 3 applies here: a storm warning of heavy continuous rain with amounts of precipitation between 40 and 75 liters per square meter.

First report from January 3rd:

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

.

Spring-like weather in Germany is over - brutal temperature drop is coming

If you look at the annual ranges, however, 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

, 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.

Then on January 5th the big drop in temperature of 10 degrees at the edge of the Alps and in Breisgau to 3 to 4 degrees.

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

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 between 0 and 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)