Overview
- - The German Weather Service maintains nationwide ice warnings through Sunday, with snow showers and subzero nights forecast.
- - Police report hundreds of crashes, including 57 in the Rostock region and 13 overnight in the Ahlhorn area causing about €180,000 in damage.
- - The A1 near Groß Ippener was closed for hours after a jackknifed lorry, a Bremen fire-supply van overturned on the A27, and a scheduled bus slid into a ditch on the B431, with no injuries in those cases.
- - Regional rail in Niedersachsen and Bremen reports delays of up to 60 minutes and partial cancellations, and several HVV bus lines in the Pinneberg area were temporarily suspended.
- - Airports saw knock-on effects, with Düsseldorf halting takeoffs and landings for about 40 minutes for snow clearance and Amsterdam Schiphol canceling hundreds of flights that affected German connections.