Overview
- Thursday starts with temperatures around minus 9 to minus 13 degrees Celsius in Berlin and Brandenburg, daytime highs near minus 2 to minus 6, light snow of 1 to 3 centimeters, and widespread icy roads.
- Forecasts for Friday call for 5 to 10 centimeters of new snow with local peaks near 15 centimeters and easterly gusts around 60 km/h that could cause snowdrifts.
- Snow intensifies overnight into Friday, becomes particularly heavy late in the morning, then eases to lighter, persistent snow through the afternoon before the system shifts south by early Saturday.
- Conditions vary by location, with readings near minus 6 in the Uckermark and around 0 in the Elbe-Elster lowlands, and forecasters expect rural routes in Brandenburg to face significant drifting while Berlin traffic likely continues to run.
- Wind chill values could feel like minus 15 to minus 25, wintry weather lingers through the weekend with night lows near minus 5 to minus 9 and possibly minus 10 to minus 15 in Brandenburg, and a separate DWD frost warning for the Leipzig area ran from Wednesday evening to Thursday late morning with lows to minus 15.