forecast
First rain and snow, then sunny and dry
The sun shines over the Theaterplatz in Dresden. photo
© Robert Michael/dpa
How is the weather actually? Germany can look forward to sunshine next week – but it will be freezing cold at night.
After rain and snow, a strong high pressure area will bring lots of sunshine to Germany next week. Before that, however, a storm at the southern tip of Greenland would bring some precipitation into the country, said the German Weather Service (DWD) in Offenbach.
During the night of Sunday, the rain in Schleswig-Holstein is likely to turn into wet snow or sleet, and there could also be freezing rain locally. During the day, the front spreads across the middle of Germany. Meteorologist Helge Tuschy from the DWD expects that the precipitation will then increasingly turn into snow or sleet over the course of the day from Hamburg and Lübeck to the Allgäu.
Where it snows a little more heavily, one to four centimeters of fresh snow can fall within twelve hours, especially in the north and between the Harz Mountains and Franconia and on the edge of the Alps. Between Lusatia and Rügen and from midday in the north-west, the cloud will break up and it will remain dry. The maximum values are one degree in the east and nine degrees in the west, in the eastern mountains light permafrost is to be expected.
Monday is then a transitional day with initially still dense clouds in many places and easing light snowfalls before the sun increasingly comes out in the afternoon, especially in the north and west. The maximum values are in the south and east of Bavaria around zero degrees, in the rest of Germany between one and six degrees. From Tuesday onwards it will be sunnier and dry under the influence of high pressure and frosty cold nights, where there is snow there can also be severe night frost.