5.20 p.m.: Augsburg schools reopen
After some schools in Augsburg closed due to the snow load on the roofs of the facilities, they will reopen from Wednesday. The city has just announced this. With the support of the Augsburg fire department, the snow load in the four schools that were still closed was checked. There is currently no longer any danger to the roofs due to snow masses. The following schools were still closed today: the RWS/FOS/BOS, the Kerschensteiner elementary and middle school, the Wittelsbacher elementary school and the Kriegshaber elementary school. The Hochzoll-Süd elementary school gymnasium, the vocational school 6 gymnasium and the Hans-Adlhoch elementary and middle school gymnasium remain closed. The city also warns of black ice on the way to school and the risk of snowfall and roof avalanches.
5:08 p.m.: Schools in the Starnberg area will resume face-to-face teaching tomorrow
At the Stockdorf elementary school in the Starnberg district there will be face-to-face classes again on Wednesday. As the district office reports, all primary and middle schools, secondary schools and high schools will then be back in normal school operations. Whether lessons at technical colleges and vocational schools will resume normally depends on whether the S6 S-Bahn is running again, because the catchment area at these schools is significantly larger.
4.50 p.m.: Partly distance learning on Wednesdays too
In the afternoon, the Ministry of Culture reported that in some schools only distance learning was possible on Wednesday.
4.40 p.m.: MVG – Clearance is progressing slowly
Passengers in regional transport continued to have to reckon with many cancellations and delays this Tuesday. In the Munich tram network, only one of eleven lines was initially running again on Tuesday, as the Munich Transport Company (MVG) announced. Another one was to be added on Tuesday evening.
The MVG said that one of the reasons why things are progressing so slowly is that cars were pushing snow, mud and ice into the tracks, which froze there. “A special vehicle and a tram have already derailed during the clearing work.” As a result, a special vehicle could no longer be used on Monday. Work crews had to work their way forward by meters “with salt, scraping iron and heavy equipment.” A clearing vehicle from the Stuttgart trams was expected on Tuesday to assist with the work.
4:27 p.m.: Train – Tough return to normality
More than 20 railway clearing vehicles worked to make snowy and icy tracks passable again, especially in the south and east. The return to some kind of normality turned out to be more difficult than many travelers wanted due to the ongoing winter weather. “Trees repeatedly fall onto tracks and overhead lines under the weight of ice and snow,” said a railway spokeswoman. “At the same time, freezing precipitation sometimes covers the overhead lines with finger-thick layers of ice, so that they can no longer transmit electricity or fall down due to the load.” In addition, employees would have to “literally thaw out” trains after the standstill.
At the same time, passengers were asked to postpone their train journeys until Wednesday or the following days if possible – and to reserve seats as trains were expected to be very full.
4 p.m.: There is still a risk of slippery conditions in the coming days
According to the German Weather Service (DWD), caution is advised in some regions of Germany in the coming days in wintry weather with some freezing rain and fresh snow. This can make roads and sidewalks dangerously slippery again. The background is, among other things, a low pressure area that is slowly moving east and northeast across northern Germany from the northwest, explained Sabine Krüger from the DWD.
3:55 p.m.: Travelers are stranded at Munich Airport
The heavy snowfall had already affected operations at Munich Airport over the weekend – on Tuesday the airport was shut down again for six hours until midday due to freezing rain. The decision to temporarily stop operations was necessary for safety reasons. According to the information, passengers in Munich must continue to expect “massive restrictions”. Hundreds of travelers were still stranded at the airport on Tuesday. They would be provided with food and drink.
3 p.m.: Cemeteries in Munich will be closed for days
As the city of Munich announces, due to the severe weather-related damage, all city cemeteries will remain closed without exception for the entire week. Burials were and are not possible today in the forest cemetery, Sendling cemetery, Solln forest cemetery and Solln cemetery. Burials will take place as planned in all other municipal cemeteries in Munich. The mourners are picked up by cemetery staff at the respective main entrance, accompanied to the mourning hall and burial site and then brought back to the exit.
2:40 p.m.: Munich Airport – 650 flights canceled due to winter weather
According to Munich Airport, 650 flights were canceled on Tuesday due to the winter weather. “We assume that the worst is over,” said an airport spokesman after the temporary suspension of air traffic due to the danger of freezing rain. “It will certainly take a while before the situation stabilizes.” Cancellations are expected again on Wednesday. However, a complete suspension of air traffic again is unlikely due to the expected low risk of freezing rain.
2.13 p.m.: Restrictions on the train on Wednesday too
As DB Regio Bayern announced on Platform Travelers should find out about connections via the website and the DB navigator.
1:00 p.m.: State government expects analysis of the rail chaos
According to the state government, the railway chaos following the heavy snowfall in Bavaria should be dealt with subsequently. The significant impact on train and air traffic is known to everyone, “that will certainly have to be analyzed in peace afterwards, which is why there were such significant difficulties in the area of train traffic in particular,” said State Chancellor Florian Herrmann (CSU). a meeting of the cabinet. The disaster protection authorities were all activated early before the onset of winter.
12.10 p.m.: Munich Airport resumes operations
After a six-hour interruption due to forecast freezing rain, Munich Airport resumed operations on Tuesday. The first Lufthansa plane landed from New York at 12 p.m., a spokesman said. Air traffic should now gradually start up again. According to the information, passengers still have to expect “massive restrictions”. Around 100 of the 770 takeoffs and landings originally planned for Tuesday are still expected in the afternoon, the spokesman said.
11.44 a.m.: Train traffic slowly picks up speed again
After the massive disruptions caused by the onset of winter in Bavaria, the first long-distance trains are scheduled to run from Munich towards Austria again on Tuesday. A railway spokeswoman said on Tuesday that they were initially planning to have “very few trains” on the routes to Salzburg and Kufstein. The company also expects improvements in the train connections between the Bavarian capital, Stuttgart and Nuremberg over the course of the day. The situation is also slowly easing in regional traffic around Munich. Trains are running again on several external routes of the S-Bahn in the surrounding area. So far, the S3 has only been running a single line on its entire regular route.