Overview
- Following Friday’s cold front, the Deutscher Wetterdienst reported rain, sleet and fresh snow in higher and eastern regions, including about 3 centimeters in Saxony’s Erzgebirge that left some roads slick.
- Warm air surged in on Saturday, with the southwest reaching 24 to 26 degrees Celsius along the Upper Rhine while many other areas rose to 16 to 22 degrees and the northeast stayed cooler and breezy.
- Sunday is set to turn unsettled again with widespread clouds, periods of rain and lower highs of roughly 10 to 17 degrees, with parts of Baden‑Württemberg nearer 8 to 14 degrees.
- Impacts span night frost in places after clear spells, alpine gusts near 70 km/h, isolated thunderstorms in the west and south, and slushy, slippery stretches where wet snow fell.
- Meteorologists tie the whiplash to a rapid air‑mass swap from polar air to a brief warm push aided by downslope Alpine winds, with DWD models showing swings over 15 degrees within 24 hours and more short‑term variability early next week.