Snow blanketed much of Germany early this week following heavy snowfall on Sunday and Monday, the German Weather Service reported. The service said that 3.5 billion tons of snow fell in the country on Sunday alone. With the winter blitz continuing, that figure could rise to 6 billion tons by Wednesday.
At Frankfurt’s airport, Germany’s largest, about half of 1,190 planned flights were cancelled on Monday, according to German news agency DPA. In Munich another 200 flights were grounded. Delays affected air traffic at every German airport as crews de-iced planes and snow-removal equipment was used to clear gates.
Icy conditions also shut down a major stretch of highway in northern Germany around Berlin, affecting Monday morning commuters. And a 70-kilometer-long (44 mile) traffic jam formed on the A4 autobahn near the border between the states of Thuringia and Hesse.
Trains didn’t fare much better either, with travelers facing long delays.
In some places ice skaters could be seen cutting figures on ice-covered roads.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/winter-weather-hits-german-airports-and-roads-a-878987.html
Thanks to Robert van deLeur for this link
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How on earth do you work out how many tons of snow have fallen? Is there a massive set of bathroom scales under germany?
Easy
Area x depth gives volume,
Volume x density gives mass in kilograms – I’ strictly metric
Mass x gravity gives weight in Newtons.
Similarly for Imperial measurements.
Isn’t it time the whole world went metric ?
Yes, metric makes much more sense. And, of course, the weight of the snow is merely an estimate and calculated much like, or exactly like, Rosco described.
ice you say, hmmmmm ….
Boy for Global warming it’s pretty chilly everywhere. I guess Al nut job needs your money.
queensland had 4 mini tornados today and the rains are truly torrential, lots of towns isolated and general mayhem is underway, its heading down the aus coast to nsw, good- puts fires out., and even victoria where we’ve had such huge fires got a hail n rain event this evening.:-)
Nah Laurel ,
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it`s all a figment of Our collective imaginations , Tim Flannery (That`s Australia`s climate commissioner for the rest of You )back in 2005/2007 said We`d never get these sort of rains again and He`s the expert
I guess it’s not a great time to travel to Germany. I think I’ll wait until spring and all the blossoms instead.
In the Netherlands thaw is expected, but in neighbouring Germany no thaw is in sight.
http://www.themunicheye.com/news/No-thaw-in-sight—Germany-under-snow-2433
Sooner or later, these massive snowfalls will begin accumulating year-to-year, ie. not melting entirely during summer months. At that point, it’s Ice Time again for the Pleistocene Era’s typical 102,000 years of continental glaciation. Sorry about those coal plants, nuclear reactors, oil fields, but saving the planet takes precedence over any mere 6-billion human lives.