Shortly before the weekend, it remains cold in Germany: The German Weather Service (DWD) warns of "some significant risk of black ice". Over the day, it should be snowing in places. The snow turns into rain, which could freeze at the freezing temperatures.
According to the forecast below freezing, the temperatures remain at minus five to zero degrees, only at the Rhine and Ems it will be up to three degrees plus. Due to dense clouds, there is hardly any severe frost - it remains with mild to moderate permafrost.
Also in the night to Saturday can fall according to German weather service a few inches of snow, which can also go back into freezing rain.
Saturday should generally be a bit milder with temperatures between zero degrees in Vorpommern and plus eight degrees on the Lower Rhine. On Sunday it will be cloudy, according to DWD, partly with rain showers. In the west it could come to thunderstorms, with maximum values between two and eleven degrees.