Overview
- DWD keeps winter weather alerts in place nationwide, and media report warnings covering all 400 districts and cities.
- Nights widely fall below −10°C with even lower minima over snow cover, and daytime frost is preventing thaw in many regions.
- Road, rail and air travel remain disrupted, with delayed departures at Düsseldorf and Dortmund airports, Deutsche Bahn long‑distance delays, and temporary bus suspensions in cities such as Kiel and Hannover.
- Emergency and municipal services are in continuous operation; Hamburg’s Stadtreinigung deployed about 728 staff and 360 vehicles, and the fire brigade logged hundreds of weather‑related callouts.
- Police report numerous accidents across several states, including a fatal crash in Zwönitz, while uplands saw the heftiest snowfall, such as 35 centimeters on Saxony’s Fichtelberg.