The German weather service warned at the weekend deal before the heavy snowfall in the South of Bavaria. There were two fatal accidents. Until Monday will come on the edge of the Alps up to 40 centimeters of new snow.
2018 was the warmest year since the beginning of weather records. After a mainly dry, but possibly overcast new year’s eve could follow in January, a drop in temperature. Germany is surprised in January and February, may of a century-Winter. Bayern sinking on the weekend in the snow and mud.
weather Update from the 6. January 2019, 9 p.m.
: to heavy snowfall in the South of Bavaria, to go further. Until Monday will come on the edge of the Alps, up to 40 centimetres of snow is expected, such as the German weather service announced on Sunday morning. This could lead to big problems on the road and the rails. The avalanche danger remains high in the affected areas. At Munich airport, the flights should start in the morning, despite the wintry weather, as planned.
On Saturday, the bomb squad were busy, the Start and runways of the Airport of the snow to free the masses. In addition to 130 cancellations, there was a delay. Around 220 flights took off only with a delay of an hour or more.
the weather also led to fatal accidents: In the Berchtesgadener Land, a woman died in an avalanche accident*. The 20-Year-old was on Saturday at the Teisenberg with a ski touring group on the road, when she was buried, the police announced. In Bad Tölz in upper Bavaria, a 19-Year-old* died after the collision of two cars on a snow-slippery road. Four other people were injured, according to police – two of them seriously.
Also in Austria, the onset of winter for problems. Roads were blocked, cars were in traffic jams, avalanches, as the ORF reported. the In Bishop, the qualification times for the last ski jumping the four hills tournament because of heavy snow if canceled . Read on tz.de* where and when you can see the Jump in the TV and Luve-Stream.
weather Update from the 5. January 2019, 14 at : The strong snowfall in the Alps has a lock in Austria, road and flight cancellations. To the West of Vienna, an important highway, was on Saturday temporarily connection blocked after a large number of trucks on the route were stopped. In mountain regions, some roads had to be closed due to avalanche danger.
Including the Sölktal in Styria, where 600 residents and tourists were stuck. The bad weather had to fall on the return trip-weekend with a lot of German tourists from Tyrol and Salzburg ski resorts returned home.
In many Parts of the Austrian Alps prevailed large avalanche risk – most of the 4 level on the to 5 rich in risk scale. The avalanche warning service in the state of Salzburg has warned that it is a serious skiing off gesichterter tracks: “part of the enormous Einsinktiefen, zero visibility and high avalanche activity,” it said on its Website.
The snow will continue through the night on Monday, predicted the Central Institute for meteorology and geodynamics. The airport in Innsbruck spoke on Saturday of “severe restrictions in the air traffic”. Numerous Compounds have been diverted, cancelled or were reported too late.
And so it goes on with the weather in Germany:
In the South of Germany it is always white. To the South of the Danube and in Parts of Saxony will continue until Monday the snowfall continued, reported the German weather service (DWD) in Offenbach on Saturday. As a result, significant Snow were to come together, especially in the Alps, in the adjacent foothills of the Alps and in the higher altitudes of the mountains in the South and Southeast. In the Rest of the country on the Sunday. mostly cloudy and rainy with a mild 3 to 9 degrees
On Monday the intensity of the rainfall, leave in General. In the North and West area, it remains dry and occasionally the sun shines. The temperatures remain at a similar level as the previous day. As of Monday night again thick clouds and precipitation are expected. The week goes on, according to the forecasts of storm. The weather in many regions more to the autumn than in the Winter, said a DWD spokesman.
weather Update from the 5. January 2019 : The worst fears for Bayern have confirmed. The traffic in the South of Germany to a complete Standstill. A railway line was already locked, and SEV is also not possible, because due to the snow roads smooth can be used no buses.
Also at the Munich airport because of the snow, outages and delays.
Similarly, the car-congested highways in southern Bavaria. On Saturday afternoon, is expected to be a lot of traffic through back-travelers from the winter holiday in Austria. The Christmas holiday ends on Sunday.
All the Details of the snow-Chaos in Bavaria they read always up to date on the weather Ticker of Merkur.de*.
