Storm - Storm instead of a white Christmas - market in Essen closed
Rain and wind instead of a white Christmas: The foothills of a low pressure system will bring lots of rain and storms to North Rhine-Westphalia on Thursday. Even over the Christmas holidays, there are no rays of hope in sight, said Martin Schönebeck from the German Weather Service on Thursday. "It's actually just going to keep raining for now," said the meteorologist. He also said: "You can forget about a white Christmas." With temperatures between 8 and 13 degrees during the day and no frost at night, it will simply be too mild for that in the coming days.
However, it will be particularly windy this Thursday: North Rhine-Westphalia is currently on the edge of a storm depression that is moving over Scandinavia. "It's enough for us to get a lot of wind here," said Schönebeck. "There is a widespread threat of wind speeds of up to 85 kilometers per hour. Showers and thunderstorms could also bring heavy gusts of up to 100 kilometers per hour and occasional hurricane-force gusts in some places in the afternoon," said the meteorologist.
As a precautionary measure, the Essen Christmas market, for example, remained closed on Thursday for this reason.
It will also remain very rainy and windy at the weekend and over the Christmas holidays. "It won't be quite as much as today, but you can always expect strong and stormy gusts," said Schönebeck. He is not hopeful that the precipitation expected in the coming days will come down as snow. At best, one or two centimetres of snow could fall in the very highest areas of the Sauerland on Friday night. But even that threatens to melt away quickly.
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Despite the disappointing weather, the beautiful Beck's Christmas market in North Rhine-Westphalia remains open, offering a festive atmosphere amidst the bad weather. Regrettably, many other markets, like the one in Essen, have had to close due to the severe weather conditions. The bad weather is expected to continue throughout the Christmas holidays in North Rhine-Westphalia, offering little hope for a white Christmas.
Source: www.stern.de
