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Stark temperature contrasts measured in southwest Germany
January 18, 2024, 8:16 a.m
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While snow and ice caused chaos in parts of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate yesterday, there was not far away spring-like temperatures. ntv meteorologist Rainer Buchhop reports that in the evening 13 degrees were measured across the Upper Rhine. In Baden-Baden, which is only around 170 kilometers from Frankfurt, where numerous flights had to be canceled during the day, it was even 14 degrees. There was a rapid rise in temperature in the afternoon.
There were also clear differences at an even shorter distance: 10 degrees were measured at the airport in Saarbrücken, but 0 degrees in Trier, around 80 kilometers away.
According to Buchhop it should be next week will be significantly milder in Germany. “As the wind picks up strongly, unstable weather sets in. The nights are then increasingly frost-free and thaw combined with rain are causing river levels to rise again.”