After mild temperatures and uncomfortable weather, winter is announced at the start of the week.

"The approaching cold air is finally causing winter feelings again," said a spokeswoman for the German Weather Service (DWD) in Offenbach on Sunday.

Due to the cold air, the snow line will continue to fall in the coming days.

On Monday there will already be snow above 300 to 400 meters.

"Especially in the Eifel, in the Hunsrück and in the Sauerland, there can be 10 to 15 centimeters of fresh snow, maybe even more in some cases," said the spokeswoman.

Snow cover could also form in the low mountain ranges.

In addition, according to the DWD, rain is coming in from the west, while it remains dry in the south and south-east.

In the west and in the middle, strong to stormy gusts are expected, in the southwest and in the mountains even gusts of wind.

With temperatures between three and ten degrees, it is colder than in the past few days.

According to the DWD, it can loosen up in the middle and in the north on Tuesday, with snow, rain or sleet to be expected locally.

The temperatures reach one to six degrees.

Meteorologists expect snow south of the Danube on Wednesday.

Otherwise the weather will be cloudy and gray.

Only in the north could the sun occasionally peek through.

The foothills of a storm caused strong winds in Lower Saxony and Bremen at the weekend.

From the afternoon, the German weather service on the North Sea coast expects heavy gusts of wind and isolated gale-force gusts and has therefore issued a severe weather warning.

After that, the wind on the North Sea decreases and falls sharply until late in the evening, as a meteorologist from the German Weather Service (DWD) said.

It was a short event that ended on Sunday.

In Hesse, heavy continuous rain over the weekend caused the water level to rise in many places.

On Sunday, the reporting levels were exceeded at 31 levels, as reported by the Hessian State Office for Nature Conservation, Environment and Geology.

The rivers Lahn, Fulda and Eder were particularly affected.

Streams in the Kinzig region and in the Taunus also carried a lot of water.