A storm is sweeping across Germany on Monday. Several people are injured by falling trees.
Long-distance rail traffic is slowed down. The German Weather Service (DWD) warned on Monday evening of locally. thunderstorms, squalls and gusts of wind. From midnight to midnight there will be continuous. light snowfall; in the south, it could become slippery above 1000 meters on Tuesday morning. According to the information, it is expected that the snowfall above 800 meters will not be as bad as in the past few years. The storm, with some strong squalls, hit several federal states in the afternoon and evening. Train passengers sometimes had to endure delays of four hours - and had to hope all evening that their temporarily stopped trains would continue at all. In Bottrop, a 19-year-old pedestrian was injured on her way home from work when a tree suddenly fell onto the sidewalk and hit the passer-by. In Cologne, a Kölner Verkehrs-betriebe bus was damaged by a fallen tree.