Overview
- Strong winds early Sunday morning blew a sheet‑metal roof into a substation in Freiburg’s Littenweiler district, causing a short circuit that cut power to several thousand households.
- The outage affected the Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, which limited its emergency department to life‑threatening cases and directed other patients to nearby clinics until power was restored.
- By late Sunday morning most households and the university hospital had regained electricity and crews moved into local cleanup and repairs.
- Regional dispatch centers logged multiple fallen‑tree incidents—Leitstelle Harz recorded 28 calls with damage to cars and one house but no serious injuries—and police in Hesse reported only minor material damage.
- The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency forecast a storm surge up to 2.5 meters above mean high water and about 2 meters at Hamburg’s St. Pauli gauge overnight, while the German Weather Service warned of 1–5 cm of snow above roughly 1,500 meters in the Bavarian Alps, prompting continued monitoring and precautions.