[Skybird]

Oh, the snow is an issue currently, I swear it, and below the snow banks, there already are iceplates on the ground. Thats is the weather phenomenon we currently have: warm, moist air from the south, and extraordinariy cold polar air from the arctic. They meet right across Germany, forming a belt-like weather front from West to East, and that is where the currenty events are happening. More to the south they indeed have had ice-rain followed by "blitz-ice", we call it so. There were pictures from cars being completely covered by a 2-3 cm thick ice coating, like something made of sugar, even a traffic sign on a pole forming a cone-like structure made of clear ice from tip to bottom of the pole. Its a known weather constellation, but happens only very rarely over here, thankfully. But when it happens, then it ends in somethign that is to be remembered. Its the third such event during my lifetime. Fifteen years ago, and back in the 70s where the last times it happened.

-9°C out here, I think I have not had that low a freeze since I live here, and that is over twenty years now. Elsewhere they expect another 10-12 degrees in temperature drop, more than -20°C.