The German Weather Service warnedBe careful, there is a risk of black ice at the start of the week!
Snow and black ice! The road can become slippery (symbolic image)
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Drivers and pedestrians be careful!
The German Weather Service warns: Black ice and snow complicate the start of the week in many places. We’ll explain where you should pay special attention.
Bad and slippery weather is expected
Since Sunday afternoon, the German Weather Service (DWD) has indicated that snowfall and freezing rain could make roads and sidewalks slippery in some places from the afternoon and evening. This will probably be especially critical from the Saarland and Palatinate through Swabia to Lower Bavaria, where precipitation turns to rain quite quickly. “It then fell to the frozen ground, so it became glassy in places.”explained DWD. Due to the freezing weather in the last few days, parts of the ground were frozen to a depth of around 15 centimeters.
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In the southern regions of the Palatinate and the Black Forest, people have been preparing for black ice since the afternoon. Late in the evening and Monday evening, severe and slippery weather is possible in southern Bavaria and Upper Swabia as well as in southeastern Bavaria until Monday morning.
Special care is required on the roads in the afternoon and evening, but also during Monday rush hour. In addition to black ice, a thin blanket of snow of around one to three centimeters east of the Hamburg-Erfurt-Stuttgart line is likely to cause problems for drivers. Snow could reach five centimeters in the mountains and in eastern Bavaria.
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On Monday, the cold situation across the country will ease again. At the start of the week, the weather will be mostly cloudy, and rainfall will fall in some areas. In the higher mountains and in the north and southeast, meteorologists expect snow or freezing rain with the formation of black ice, otherwise it will rain in many places with highs of between 1 degree on the Oder and lower Danube and up to 8 degrees on the Rhine River.
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New rain and snowfall with temperatures around freezing point are expected in southern Germany on Tuesday evening – so there is a risk of slippery roads again in many places. (dga)
Sources used: dpa, dwd.de
