A thunderstorm that drew over Germany on Thursday caused considerable disruption in traffic, both on the road, by air and on the railway. In addition to abundant rainfall, fallen trees in particular caused the necessary problems. The fire brigade had to take action hundreds of times.
In the winter weather, northern Germany, including Berlin, delivered a white Easter. On the Baltic Sea coast in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, according to Deutscher Wetterdienst (the German KNMI), 35 centimeters of snow fell locally. Such a thick suit in April was last measured in 1970.
It is also a stormy day in Germany. The weather service warns of wind gusts up to 115 kilometers per hour. In the Harz, the northern low mountain range, that can reach up to 160 kilometers per hour. Here and there schools remain closed.
A 28-year-old German military who, according to justice, had plans to commit a terrorist attack, has appeared as a Syrian asylum seeker.
How do you get quiet a crying baby? By rocking. A police officer in the German city of Offenbach was faced with the heart-rending cries of a baby in a car. There was only one possibility: the agent rocked the whole car. The baby fell asleep.
Thieves in Germany this weekend stolen three tons of meat from a shop in Offenbach-Hundheim, in Rhineland-Palatinate. The prize is worth 40,000 euros, police said Sunday.
More than a month after the terrorist attack in Istanbul is a woman from the German Westerngrund yet deceased to her injuries. The 52-year-old died Sunday in a clinic in Offenbach, told the Bavarian Interior Ministry Tuesday.
Warm air is currently doing temperatures in the Arctic rise to unprecedented heights. A weather station on a buoy located 500 kilometers from the pole gave Wednesday a temperature of exactly zero degrees.
