Overview
- The national weather service maintains warnings for icy conditions and stormy gusts in several regions, with exposed areas facing winds up to 75 km/h and a wind advisory in some areas valid through Friday evening.
- Municipal crews mobilized before dawn to keep priority routes passable, including Duisburg’s WBD, which began gritting main roads and bridges from 4 a.m. with large spreaders and teams on foot.
- Police reported numerous weather-related crashes, including a bus that overturned in Kürten injuring the driver seriously, multiple pileups on the A27 near Bremen, and a truck that overturned and burned on the A66 near Schlüchtern.
- Impacts varied by region, with Unterfranken logging around 40 mostly minor crashes and Würzburg halting city buses, while the Kreis Wesel police reported only a limited number of incidents by midday.
- DWD guidance points to continuing snow showers and shifting bands of precipitation, with conditions easing south of the Danube on Saturday and fresh bursts moving into northern areas on Sunday.