Snow in early November. Will this winter be ice cold?

In Lower Saxony and along a Baltic coast, 20cm of sleet has depressed in new days, with temperatures plummeting to -16C overnight on Wednesday.

While in a Alpine regions it is normal to see layer progressing in Nov “in a low-lying plains a sleet customarily comes during a finish of a month,” he says.

“What we have seen in Lower Saxony, where outrageous amounts of sleet have fallen, is really surprising for Nov and happens during many once each 10 years.”

But Friedrich cautions that a cold Nov does not contend anything about how a rest of a winter will vessel out.

He explains that a DWD uses modelling systems to work out continue trends for a arriving seasons.

“With these we can see either it is statistically approaching that a deteriorate will be warmer or colder in comparison with a prior 30 years,” Friedrich says, adding that winter 2016-17 is approaching to be rather amiable in chronological comparison.

“But this is a matter that has usually a really singular use to a wider public. You can’t tell from this comment when in a winter it will spin cold. With a long-term forecast, we can’t devise anything exactly.”

As for either we are approaching to have a white Christmas in a Bundesrepublik, a weatherman says that it is approach too early to tell.

“It feels like we start conference this doubt in Sep each year!” he says. “At a really beginning we will be means to give an comment in a center of Dec on either sleet is approaching over a gratifying period.”

But even then, a sky readers are usually right 65 to 75 percent of a time.

“If a continue conditions are really difficult, it is mostly usually probable to tell one or dual days previously either uninformed sleet will tumble on Christmas,” says Friedrich.

“Particularly in a pell-mell continue complement of executive Europe, it is really tough to review a tea leaves.”

The weatherman has his possess idea for those who wish a pledge of a white Christmas.

“On Zugspitze [Germany’s top mountain] there had been sleet on a 3,000-metre limit given we have started recording it. Whoever simply contingency have sleet on Christmas should conduct for Zugspitze or other Alpine peaks over 2,000 metres.”