Minus 25 degrees - now the weather service warns of dangerous freezing rain at night
Created: 2022-12-14 04:47
By: Marc Dimitriu
In the coming days it should remain frosty in Germany.
December is the coldest so far since 2010, and now it's bringing dangerous freezing rain with it.
Munich – We are still in the autumn calendar, but the winter weather has already hit hard.
In addition to the first snow, which has been lying for a few days now, there is also icy cold.
On Tuesday morning, December 13, minus 17 degrees were measured at a height of two meters in the Upper Harz Mountains and in Geisingen.
This is reported by qualified meteorologist Dominik Jung, managing director of the weather service Q.met, to the weather portal
wetter.net
.
Minus 25 degrees measured in Bavaria: “Snow and freezing rain” follows on Wednesday night
“At a measuring height of around five cm, the weather stations measured significantly lower values.
It was around minus 25 degrees at the Oberhaching-Laufzorn weather station in Bavaria this Tuesday morning!
An icy cold for the first half of December,” says Jung.
In the course of the day it should get warmer again, with a mix of sun and clouds.
According to the German Weather Service (DWD), the temperatures will rise to just over 0 degrees in some places.
According to Jung, the coming night should not be quite as cold either, “at least not in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg”.
Because clouds would gather there and in places they would bring "snow and freezing rain, which will extend to Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland."
DWD warns of black ice: "Massive restrictions on road and rail traffic"
The DWD also issued an official frost warning for the whole of Germany today.
For Bavaria and parts of Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and northern Saxony there is even a warning of severe frost and ice.
A special warning of storms and black ice applies in the coming night in the foothills of the Alps.
“In the night of Wednesday, precipitation will come from the southwest, some of which will initially fall as snow, but will quickly turn into freezing rain.
Widespread black ice must be reckoned with!
It cannot be ruled out that the freezing rain will last for many hours.
As a result, massive restrictions in road and rail traffic are to be expected.
In addition, there can be damage to the infrastructure, such as electricity pylons and lines," says the DWD.
Christmas weather still uncertain: Permafrost is currently predicted
But also in the coming days, until the 4th of Advent, it will remain cold.
According to qualified meteorologist Dominik Jung, it will be milder again afterwards, but according to current calculations by the US weather model of NOAA, there will only be a 48-hour reduction.
Then it could get colder again.
With a view to Christmas, Jung explains: “At Christmas this morning, the model is even anticipating icy times.
Permafrost and night values around minus 10 to minus 20 degrees.
But this is only a current snapshot.
Yesterday, a very mild Christmas was calculated.
That just goes to show: nothing is certain when it comes to Christmas weather!”
"December is completely out of line": Coldest December since 2010 - probably no heat record for 2022
So far we have also had the coldest December since 2010. According to Jung, the current temperatures are around 1.2 degrees below the average climate for the years 1961 to 1990.
"It's the old climate remedy.
If you compare it with the new climate mean for the years 1991 to 2020, the month is even around 1.5 to 2 degrees too cold.
That is an unusually high negative deviation, especially since in 2022 we actually had one month after the other that was too warm.
December is now completely out of line, has stopped the warming trend!”
2022 could have been the warmest year since measurements began, but thanks to the cold December, we'll miss this record and it will "probably 'only' be enough for second place."
