Overview
- DWD maintains widespread night and morning alerts for frost, freezing drizzle and dense fog, with visibility in places below about 150 meters and slick roads in the north and northeast.
- Atlantic lows push much milder, wetter air into the southwest, with the Black Forest facing up to around 100 liters of rain by Friday and strong to stormy gusts on peaks near 70 km/h.
- Fresh snow of roughly 2 to 10 centimeters is forecast for the highest Black Forest elevations, with stony or even orkanartige gusts possible on the highest summits by Wednesday.
- Bavaria’s hydrological services warn of rising waters from snowmelt and rain, with flood alerts in parts of Franconia including Ansbach, Erlangen‑Höchstadt and Forchheim.
- Karneval’s kickoff on Thursday in the Rhineland is expected to be mild yet wet and breezy, while some model runs still flag a possible mid‑February cold snap that remains uncertain.