Status: 11/20/2022 11:37 am
The brief onset of winter in the north will lead to snowfall again today. At night it gets cold to minus five degrees. There is a risk of ice again. But from Monday it will be milder again.
It is expected to snow extensively in Lower Saxony today. The German Weather Service (DWD) announced that there was a risk of sleet or snow showers on the North Sea with a risk of ice. A small foretaste of a white winter was also evident on the Baltic Sea on Sunday morning. A thin layer of snow covered the dunes and the beach on the Bay of Lübeck. There was also some snow in the area around Kiel. In Hamburg, a few flakes swirled through the air.
Up to five centimeters of snow in Lower Saxony
In the night of Monday, snowfall is supposed to move across the country in the southern half of Lower Saxony, up to five centimeters are possible. The snow will gradually turn to rain. There is also a risk of ice there.
The temperature inland could fall again to minus five degrees, said Bauditz. A very thin layer of snow could remain locally, especially near the Baltic Sea coast. Even on Monday it will still be wet and cold during the day. The “winter episode” ends on Tuesday night at the latest, said Bauditz.
First snowfalls not very productive – except in the north-east
The first snowfalls on Friday and Saturday were mostly not particularly heavy in northern Germany. In the northeast of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Around Ueckermünde, on the other hand, around ten centimeters of fresh snow fell, the winter service was in action. Most weather-related accidents were minor. The police called on drivers to switch from summer to winter tires now at the latest.
“As far as we can see into the future, around the end of next week, the temperature level will drop back to almost ten degrees in the greater Hamburg area,” said DWD meteorologist Josef Kantuzer. Rain is to be expected again and again over the course of the coming week, but this will not make up for the many dry periods this year, according to the meteorologist.
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Many slippery accidents on north German roads
Numerous slippery accidents were reported from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on Saturday. In the area of the police headquarters in Neubrandenburg alone – i.e. in the eastern part of the country – the police had to record twelve ice accidents by noon, the focus was on the region around Pasewalk. Several vehicles threw themselves into the crash barriers on the A19, A20 and A24 motorways. Most of the accidents were minor.
Ice had already led to several accidents in the Osnabrück area on Friday evening – including on the A33. Three vehicles collided there. Four people were injured, two of them were taken to a hospital.
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