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[3catcircus]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Random find.



I know I know that Americans will not be overly impressed, with their Blizzards at the East coast being much worse and a frequent event in the winter season, but this is Germany, the middle of it, and for the regional standards this snow event is absolutley exceptionell. I am not certain when was the last time i saw snow living for longer than just 3 or 4 hours, but its been many years. We had a huge snow desaster over here in the region, with some districts north of my hometown having no electricity for days - but that is 15 years ago.

Currently, all truck traffic in the area of my hometown has been prohibited by police, and I heard three driving cars over the day. No busses drive currently either, also no trains. Its wonderfully calm and peaceful. I love it. I am no city boy.

For the centre of the messy zone they project temperatures this night of -21°C.

Snow isn't an issue because it can be shoveled and plowed. The real danger is when it warms up during the day and all that snow turns into water that then freezes into ice at night.

Lots of cityfolk with expensive luxury 4WD type vehicles get overly confident driving - sure a 4WD vehicle will help you *start* moving but does nothing when trying to stop.

[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.