Status: 01/20/2023 07:37 a.m
It will be patchy in the north this morning. There is also snow or sleet. In some places up to five centimeters of fresh snow falls, in Schleswig-Holstein up to ten centimeters.
In the south-east of Lower Saxony, people are called upon to be particularly careful when driving on roads that are slippery. The heights of the Harz should be avoided by trucks because of heavy snowfall. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, on the other hand, it is rather dry. According to the German Weather Service (DWD), there was snowfall in places in the morning. There are stormy gusts on the North Sea. The maximum values are 1 degree in the southern Harz, 3 degrees in Stralsund and up to 5 degrees on Norderney and in St. Peter-Ording.
Minus temperatures of up to 8 degrees
This evening, ice can set in again in the north due to frost formation or freezing wet conditions. On the night of Saturday, dense cloud fields with locally freezing fog form at low temperatures of minus 8 degrees in the upper mountains and minus 4 degrees in the lowlands, as well as in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg. According to the DWD, there can be up to minus 3 degrees in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
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The snow cannons are running in the Harz Mountains
Temperatures in the Harz Mountains are still around freezing. Here, lift operators put the first snow cannons into operation. Slope and lift operators are happy about the nightly sub-zero temperatures in the low mountain range, as the winter season in the Harz has been rather modest so far. In addition to the snow cannons, real snow should also ensure white slopes at the weekend: According to a meteorologist from the German Weather Service, two to five centimeters of fresh snow are possible.
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