The third severe winter storm within a few days knocked down trees in parts of Germany and caused accidents.

On the night of Monday, the cold front from "Antonia" brought heavy gusts that could still be felt during the day.

But initially significantly less damage was known than after the two previous storms "Ylenia" and "Zeynep".

It should remain stormy, especially in central and southern Germany, until the evening.

Then an abatement of the violent storms is in sight.

The warning map of the German Weather Service (DWD) was colored at least orange for all regions of Germany on Monday afternoon, with warnings of striking weather.

There could be heavy gusts of wind across the country, in western and central Germany there could be continuous rain in some areas when the storm "Antonia" itself moved over Germany after its cold front.

According to the forecast, there could also be further extreme hurricane gusts on the Brocken, in the Bavarian Forest and on the Fichtelberg the meteorologists expected hurricane-like gusts and hurricane gusts.

The DWD then expected a “slight calming of the weather” for Tuesday night.

According to the forecasts, moderate to fresh winds will pick up in the eastern half during the day, and again in the west and north-west in the afternoon, with gusts of strong to stormy winds.

On Wednesday, mostly weak winds from west to south-west will blow in the south-west.

In the north and east, moderate to fresh winds from the west with strong gusts are expected, on the sea and in the mountains also with stormy gusts or gusts of wind.

Accidents and several injuries

According to the DWD, there had been extreme hurricane gusts of over 140 kilometers per hour on the Brocken and on the Feldberg in the Black Forest.

Hurricane gusts of 117 km/h were reported in Lüdenscheid (North Rhine-Westphalia), and 113 km/h from Roth south of Nuremberg.

Individual people were injured in accidents.

In Belm near Osnabrück, two drivers crashed their cars into a tree that had fallen due to the storm.

Both were injured and taken to nearby hospitals.

A car also crashed into a fallen tree near Sittensen (Lower Saxony).

The 27-year-old driver and two passengers suffered minor injuries.

In the south there was local snow.

That's why a school bus left the road near Wolfegg (Baden-Württemberg) in the morning and slid into a ditch.

The doors were initially jammed, which is why the approximately 30 children could not leave the bus for about half an hour, said a police spokeswoman.

Nobody was injured.

The Hamburg fish market was flooded again on Monday morning.

According to the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), the water level exceeded the mean high water level by about 1.5 meters - above this value, a storm surge is spoken of.

The BSH also expected a storm surge there on Monday evening.

The heavy rain has also caused some rivers and ditches to swell significantly.

Experts from the flood forecast center expected minor floods in some areas in Lower Saxony, which could result in adjacent fields and fields being flooded.

More rain is expected by mid-week.

According to the fire brigade, several lower-lying properties and houses in north-western Lower Saxony were flooded on Monday night.

There was also a local flood warning in Saxony-Anhalt.

The police also warned about caution in the Harz mountains: there is still a risk that trees could fall.

Rail traffic restrictions

Deutsche Bahn (DB) advised passengers on Monday to find out one hour before departure whether their train is running as planned.

Due to storm damage, many trains were canceled again or came later, and restrictions are expected until at least the afternoon, it said.

According to DB information, there were still no long-distance trains between Rostock/Stralsund and Hamburg and Berlin, between Norddeich Mole/Emden and Cologne and between Siegen and Dortmund.

The railway company Metronom, which operates many regional lines in Lower Saxony, Hamburg and Bremen, announced that emergency bus services were planned until Monday afternoon.

In the past few days, at least six people have died in accidents in Germany due to the hurricane lows "Ylenia" and most recently "Zeynep".

There were also fatal accidents in several other European countries, such as Poland, the Netherlands, Great Britain and Belgium.

"Ylenia" and "Zeynep" are likely to cost insurers more than 1.4 billion euros, according to initial estimates by management consultancy Meyerthole Siems Kohlruss (MSK).

The fire brigade in Berlin alone deployed around 4,000 weather-related operations between Thursday morning and Sunday afternoon.

It was "the most active state of emergency weather in the history of the Berlin fire brigade", said the capital fire brigade.

In such a state of emergency, for example, the voluntary fire brigades are also called to duty.

Fire chief Karsten Homrighausen said on Monday with regard to a change in the weather: "We are observing that the deployment scenarios are changing significantly." In the past, this type of storm was experienced every two or three years.

Now increasing in frequency and strength.