Expert gives a specific date: Snow should soon be in front of the door in Germany
Created: 11/26/2022, 4:55 am
By: Martina Lippl
According to meteorologists, the weather in Germany will be "really exciting".
A distinctive air mass boundary forms.
Expect snow, sleet and frost.
Munich – The constant high-pressure weather situation of the past few weeks is over for the time being.
The weather is changing.
An air mass limit will build up over Germany in the next few days.
"Now it's getting really exciting," says qualified meteorologist Dominik Jung from the weather service
Q.met
.
Onset of winter in Germany: Marked air mass limit causes snowfall
First snow 2022: DWD graphic shows Scandinavia Hoch Erik and the distribution of the front systems in Europe.
© DWD/wetterpate.de
"Cold air masses are slowly creeping towards northeast Germany," explains weather expert Jung.
"Mild, warm air masses from south-western Europe are moving towards Germany." The result: a precipitation area forms where the two air masses meet.
On the southern side there is rain, on the northern side it is mostly snow or sleet.
It can rain heavily in some places, but there can also be heavy snowfall.
Weather forecast: When will there be the first snow in November 2022?
On Friday (November 18th) the time has come.
Weather experts also seem to agree on this point: "On Friday and at the weekend it will be really exciting with the weather, because winter is knocking on the door," says
Marcel Schmid , a qualified meteorologist from the
German Weather Service , on the topic of the day.
Low-pressure areas Ex-Nicole and Regina over the East Atlantic try to bring in mild sea air.
The Scandinavia high Erik counteracts this with cold mainland air, according to
DWD
meteorologist Schmid.
The temperature contrasts are large.
Weather in Germany: Snow can fall from the sky here
Where does it actually snow?
"The snowfall area is still being calculated back and forth," says Jung.
There will probably be snow in a strip from the North Sea to Saxony.
It could be enough for a first winter greeting, predicts weather expert Jung.
"I doubt 20 centimeters, as calculated by the European weather model." Up to 19 centimeters of snow south of Berlin, Brandenburg and 12 centimeters by Saturday in Hamburg would be calculated there.
According to the meteorologist, there were already exaggerated snow forecasts last year.
Jung is more likely to expect one or two centimetres.
According to the DWD, a few centimeters of wet snow are possible locally from Schleswig-Holstein to southeast Brandenburg.
During the night, the weather service was from ice.
In the east, temperatures drop to minus 5 degrees.
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Weather models expect up to 17 centimeters of snow (archive photo).
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Snow, sleet and frost: Winter may be knocking on the door in these regions
Schleswig Holstein
Lower Saxony
Hamburg
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Brandenburg
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Winter weather in Germany: DWD expects fresh snow in the Alps
In the Alps on Friday, the snow line is around 1,300 meters, the DWD announced in its updated forecast on Wednesday.
The Austrian ZAMG (Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics) reports that the snow line on the border with Austria could fall well below 1000 meters, maybe even around 500 meters, by Friday evening.
The ZAMG points to greater uncertainties in the precise assessment.
On the other hand, the DWD weather experts expect little snowfall on Saturday, especially in Upper Franconia (Bavaria) above 800 to 1,000 meters.
The winter feeling will soon be over, forecasts meteorologist Jung.
It is not yet a sustainable winter weather situation.
After the exciting weather conditions at the weekend, it will remain cooler in the north-east, but even there it will slowly become milder again.
How will winter 2022/23 be?
Weather expert estimates the coming months in the
Mercury
conversation rather mild.
By the start of December at the latest, many are hoping for a white Christmas.
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