Overview
- Germany’s weather service forecasts a widespread and potentially severe glaze-ice event from Monday into Tuesday, with the east and south highlighted for elevated risk.
- Deutsche Bahn has reduced top speeds on the Hannover–Frankfurt, Wolfsburg–Berlin and Cologne–Frankfurt high‑speed sections and dropped ICE stops in Braunschweig and Hildesheim on the Berlin–Frankfurt route, warning of delays.
- Officials in North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Bremen canceled in‑person classes, with emergency care in NRW and distance learning in Bremen as school buses are halted.
- The ADAC urged drivers to forgo nonessential trips, and Transport Minister Patrick Schnieder cautioned that the hazardous phase tied to low Gunda is not over.
- Forecasters expect snow to turn to freezing rain as temperatures rise toward 0°C after lows down to -15°C, locally -20°C, with ice accretion threatening trees, power lines and rail overhead wires.