Winter Weather Alerts and Road Safety in Rhineland-Palatinate

2024-01-16 01:33:49

The week in RLP started with cold, snow and slippery conditions. There were accidents and one person died in the Westerwald. Caution is still advised on the roads: there is a risk of freezing rain.

The new week started with snowfall and slippery roads. A number of accidents, including one fatal, occurred on Monday, particularly in the north of the country. A 38-year-old man was killed in a head-on crash near Sörth in the Altenkirchen district. The police said he drove his car into oncoming traffic on a snow-covered road and crashed into an oncoming car. He died at the scene of the accident. The 63-year-old driver of the other car was seriously injured. Federal highway 414 was temporarily completely closed after the accident.

There were also traffic problems elsewhere in the Westerwald. There was a pile-up on a snowy stretch of road on the A6 near Enkenbach-Alsenborn. There were also accidents with sheet metal damage in the Trier region.

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Caution is still advised on the roads as the unpleasant weather remains. On the night of Tuesday It snows and becomes slippery, especially between the Eifel and Westerwald. On Tuesday it will be very cloudy and there may still be snow showers until midday, moving eastwards by midday.

And it remains cold in Rhineland-Palatinate: on Tuesday morning the temperatures are between -1 and -5 degrees. In the afternoon the sun comes out more and more often. It doesn’t really get any warmer: then temperatures range between -3 and 2 degrees.

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Snow and ice have hindered traffic on many roads in the Westerwald. There were truck accidents on the A3 and A48. A man had a fatal accident on the B414.

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There is a threat of freezing rain in RLP on Wednesday

The German Weather Service (DWD) warns of freezing rain later this week. Deep “Gertrud” causes a lot of precipitation, including freezing rain, according to DWD meteorologist Martin Jonas. This has “severe weather potential”. According to the current status, on Wednesday A wide strip from southern Rhineland-Palatinate through southern Hesse, northern Baden-Württemberg to Bavaria will be affected by dangerous black ice.

It should also be on Wednesday According to weather experts’ forecasts, it will snow – with highs between -2 and 3 degrees. On the night of Thursday It is also expected to snow and black ice could form again. On Thursday the maximum values will be between -2 and 3 degrees. The snow is expected to move southeastward by midday.