Snow in Mannheim

Diary:-

6am, it was snowing in Mannheim, when i finally woke up to get myself to study. But the view outside my room window caught my attention. It is snowing! At the 1st glance, i thought that it is a frost, so i quickly went downstairs and went outside to test the white snow. Yes, it was indeed snow, and the snow particle was flying gracefully. Finally, the hottest place in Baden-Wuerttemberg is getting the snow blessing. Just a few days before, some people were speculating that there will be probably no snow at all in Mannheim until March, since Mannheim is considerably a warm city.

Just a few days ago, Stuttgard is snowing blizzardly and some accidents do happen. Yet, Mannheim keeps herself busy with cold wind. Cold wind instead of snowing, irony huh?

1st Snow in Mannheim starts at midnight (around 2am in the early morning) and ends around 9am.

by king ung

The Jungbusch bridge and the Rhein-Neckar river.

Sad, the snow is starting to melt. Snowman, where are you?

Further reading:
PARIS : Snowstorms have swept across west and central Europe for a second day, killing three people in Germany, disrupting air traffic and leaving dozens of drivers trapped on freezing, log-jammed roads.

Germany: The German victims were a 70-year-old bus driver killed in a head-on collision with a truck in Baden-Wuerttemberg, and another motorist in a car accident in the same southwestern state, while a 50-year-old motorist who crashed into road barrier in neighbouring Bavaria.

A Piccadilly line underground train crawls along the snow-covered tracks.

Thousand of air passengers were forced to spend the night at Stuttgart airport after snow closed down the runway, while flights to and from Munich, the Bavarian capital, were also disrupted on Wednesday.

The sudden wintry snap, which follows a period of unseasonably warm weather across Europe, left southern Germany coated in up to 10 centimetres of white, with more snow expected until Saturday.

A person walks in the snow in the street of Geneva , Switzerland

Europe traffic: Prague airport, the busiest in Central Europe, was closed by heavy snowfall early on Wednesday and was not expected to reopen before 4:00 pm (1500 GMT), while traffic was disrupted throughout the country.

There were minor disruptions at London airports, with 16 short-haul flights cancelled, including 13 at Heathrow, due to wintry conditions, as well as multiple disruptions on the London Underground.

Some 32 European flights were cancelled in Switzerland at Zurich-Kloten airport Wednesday morning, with delays on many long-haul flights.

A dozen short-haul incoming and outgoing flights were also cancelled at Rome-Fiumicino airport in Italy, where there was heavy snowfall in the north of the country as well as violent winds.

Austria: Traffic chaos gripped southern Austria, where dozens of drivers spent a freezing night at the wheel, trapped in an eight-kilometre tailback caused by lorries blocking the road.

Power was cut to around 12,000 Austrian homes, with repair works seriouly disrupted by the risk of falling trees, according to the Carinthian energy provider Kelag, which said power should be restored by Wednesday evening.

Several roads and a highway in Carinthia were also closed due to the snow, while several families had to be evacuated from their homes because of the threat from falling trees.

Spain: Heavy snowfall in Spain caused the closure of a northern motorway linking the Basque coast to Pamplona, as well as several dozen mountain roads.

France: In France, the situation slowly returned to normal on the Paris-Lyon motorway Wednesday morning, after traffic was cut in both directions, leaving around 6,000 motorists stranded into the night.

Around 600 people who were still stuck as night fell were provided with emergency shelter in the nearby towns of Auxerre, Avallon and Sens, while a few dozen decided to stick it out in highway service stations.

Around 80,000 French homes were still without power on Wednesday, mostly in remote rural parts of the central Auvergne and Limousin regions, hardest bit by the sudden burst of wintry weather.

The state power provider EDF was unable to say when the situation would be back to normal, with power lines cut by falling trees or simply by the weight of the snow.

Denmark: Heavy snowfall caused little disruption across Scandinavia, although it was at the root of a 50-car pile up on a motorway south of Copenhagen in Denmark, where no casualties were reported.

On a brighter note, the snowstorms were welcome relief to dozens of ski resorts in the French and Swiss Alps, many of which had been unable to open for the season for lack of snow.

- AFP/de (24/1/2007)