Overview
- Overnight glatte conditions triggered numerous crashes and blockades nationwide, with lorries stuck on key routes and police reporting dozens of incidents across Bavaria, NRW, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg‑Vorpommern and Saxony.
- On Bavaria’s A93 a truck carrying roughly 20 tonnes of salmon overturned, spilling its load and forcing a closure of about ten to twelve hours near Wernberg‑Köblitz; no serious injuries were reported.
- Hamburg’s Köhlbrandbrücke saw hours‑long gridlock on Friday, and parts of local bus networks in Hamburg and Würzburg were suspended due to impassable streets.
- The German Weather Service maintains yellow to orange alerts for widespread ice and snow, with inland gusts often 55–65 km/h (locally up to 75 km/h) and coastal bursts near 100 km/h plus local snow totals of 5–15 cm in the north.
- Forecasters expect renewed overnight icing through Sunday, recurring snow showers, and severe night lows down to about −15°C in the south and alpine areas, keeping travel risks elevated.