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Anyone who has spent a lot of time shoveling snow, especially in the northern part of Germany, can breathe a sigh of relief: The snowfall will clearly decrease in the coming days compared to the weekend.

According to the German Weather Service (DWD), it remains wintry - especially in the evening and after hours.

Hoch "Gisela" brings plenty of frost, only a few areas remain frost-free at least during the day, according to the DWD meteorologists.

On Tuesday, permafrost prevails almost everywhere from minus 5 to minus 10 degrees.

In the middle of Germany, the thermometer can even drop to minus 15 degrees.

The following applies for the coming days: If freezer temperatures prevail during the day, the values ​​are more reminiscent of freezers at night.

In central and eastern Germany, night frosts of minus 18 degrees should not be uncommon.

If you have to go outside early in the morning, it is better to put on an extra layer of clothing, because in windy conditions the temperature can be minus 30 degrees.

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Only on the coasts and in the south are the lows in the first half of the week a maximum of minus 5 degrees.

Until the second half of the week, however, they too will be gripped by the icy grip of the high "Gisela".

Snow and snow showers, however, are only to be expected occasionally.

Most likely it could snow again heavier north of Hamburg on Tuesday.

The current situation

After the violent onset of winter in many regions of Germany on the weekend, extreme weather should continue on Monday: The German Weather Service (DWD) warned of heavy snowfalls with mostly ten to 25 centimeters of fresh snow in the first half of the day in central Germany.

Northeast Hesse,

Thuringia,

Saxony-Anhalt

and

Saxony

in particular should be affected

.

In other federal states, too, people continue to face restrictions due to the onset of winter.

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Efforts to fight the corona pandemic were also affected.

Thuringia closed all vaccination centers for Monday morning, as the Ministry of Health in Erfurt announced.

In the afternoon the situation should be reassessed.

Massive restrictions on mobility

The onset of winter has also led to severe

restrictions in rail traffic

.

"Due to extreme storms", train cancellations and delays are likely to occur throughout the day in large parts of the country, the railway announced in a warning on its website.

According to this, long-distance traffic is to remain suspended in many places "until further notice".

According to Bahn, the restrictions particularly affect the

Berlin

and

Hamburg

regions

,

where almost no long-distance trains started on Monday.

Accordingly, the connections from both cities in the direction of Hanover, Cologne, Frankfurt and Munich remained suspended.

Also from

Dresden

"for the time being there will be no long-distance trains in the direction of Leipzig, Frankfurt, Hanover and Cologne," said the railway.

In addition, "long-distance traffic north of Frankfurt" is completely stopped.

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In addition, air traffic was temporarily restricted in some regions.

Dortmund

Airport has

temporarily suspended flight operations due to icy runways.

A spokeswoman said the resumption of operations was scheduled for 1 p.m.

Machines with the destination Dortmund were diverted to Cologne / Bonn.

There and in Dusseldorf, flight operations ran in the morning without any disruptions.

The

garbage collection

had to be canceled in some places due to the snowfall.

For example, the district of Bautzen

(

Saxony

) announced

that the disposal vehicles had remained in the depots because of the “restrictions and dangers for personnel and material”.

Similar reports came from

Thuringia

.

30 centimeters of snow and meter-high drifts

A heavy snowstorm caused traffic chaos in parts of Germany on Sunday.

In some places more than 30 centimeters of snow fell and there were meter-high drifts.

Police and fire brigade drove countless missions.

There were major restrictions on regional and long-distance rail services.

Bundesliga soccer games have been canceled.

In the early morning snowfall near Dresden, too, many people are stuck in traffic on the snowy Autobahn 4

Source: dpa / Robert Michael

In

Thuringia

, eight employees of a cleaning company were injured in an accident on an icy road.

As a spokesman for the police announced on Monday, the 49-year-old driver's minibus skidded on Sunday afternoon between Oettersdorf and Dittersdorf (both in the Saale-Orla district) due to slipperiness in a curve.

Thereupon the car came off the road, collided with the guardrail, overturned and hit the roof.

The driver and another five men and two women (all between the ages of 25 and 59) were injured.

They were taken to hospitals.

Snow in North Rhine-Westphalia

The heavy onset of winter brought the clearance services

to their limits

in

North Rhine-Westphalia,

for

example

.

The police had to block highways as smooth as glass, there were hundreds of accidents, and trains were canceled due to iced overhead lines.

Cars got stuck in deep drifts of snow.

In

Göttingen

, the snowfall brought traffic on the A7 to an almost complete standstill.

On the night of Monday, trucks jammed on other motorways that could not move forward in the snow.

In the

Bielefeld

city center, the police found in the morning in a snow dead.

According to a spokesman for the city, the circumstances are currently still open.

It is therefore still unclear whether it is a medical emergency or whether the person froze to death in the storm.

The investigations of the colleagues on site have not yet been concluded.

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Several cities and districts have stopped bus traffic in North Rhine-Westphalia - including

Essen,

Recklinghausen

and

Dortmund.

The buses will go back to the depots, as the Ruhrbahn announced on Monday morning on Twitter.

The weather conditions do not allow safe regular services.

There were also no buses in the Recklinghausen district on Monday morning.

The Vestische trams said that operations could not resume until noon at the earliest.

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“Our buses stay in the depot,” said the Dortmund public utility company on Twitter.

The light rail lines should run at least on parts of the route.

"Then let's see what the weather does to us," it said.

Tram derailed in Braunschweig

In

Braunschweig,

the fire brigade recovered a tram that had jumped off the rails due to the snow.

The wagon belonged to a special vehicle with a snow plow, with which the transport company was actually on the way to free rails from the masses of snow, as a fire department spokesman said on Sunday.

Rescue workers lifted the car, which weighed tons, back into the track with a truck crane.

According to the fire brigade, snow drifts with a height of up to 70 centimeters piled up in the Braunschweig urban area.

The fire brigade had to move

in

Duisburg

because houses directly on the Rhine had been cut off from the outside world by the snowdrifts.

Clearance vehicles got stuck in the snowdrifts, some 1.50 meters high, the police said.

Stuck trucks blocked

several motorways

in the north and east of

Hesse

.

"The situation is catastrophic," said a police spokesman in Fulda early on Monday morning.

In many areas, the trucks and cars have been stuck in traffic for six hours and there is no forward or backward movement.

The A7 and A4 are particularly affected.

"Everything around the Kirchheim triangle is tight," said the spokesman.

Truck drivers should no longer use the motorways.

It is not yet clear when the lanes will be clear again.

Trucks were parked across in the north of Hesse.

A spokesman for the Kassel police said it was tight on Autobahn 7 between Lutterberg and Homberg.

The clearance vehicles would hardly get through.

Scheuer: Better to stay at home

Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) advised those affected by the snow chaos in Germany to stay at home at the beginning of the week.

Scheuer said after a briefing on Sunday at "Bild live" that one could not guarantee that the rail traffic would be up and running again on Monday.

Low "Tristan" over Central Europe and the Central Mediterranean, in combination with high "Gisela" over Scandinavia, brings more icy air.

"After the snowy and windy weekend, the great cold is coming from the east," said meteorologist Simon Trippler from the DWD on Sunday.

Snow must still be expected, but it does not fall as intensely as on the weekend.

On Tuesday, the snowfall will mostly subside, except on the coast.

A positive effect of the onset of winter

The onset of winter has led to a further easing of the

flood situation

in

many places

.

This is also the case in

Hesse:

According to the Hessian State Office for Nature Conservation, Environment and Geology in Wiesbaden, the water levels in rivers and streams fell significantly on Monday.