Weather | Heavy snowfall and bitter cold: How will it be at the weekend?
Also, initially, we still expect Saturday nights in most areas light snowfall or snow showers – this will gradually cease from the northwest, and in the northwest the clouds will begin to break to partly cloudy.
Today, the roads in the Ústí Region are passable with caution. There is a slushy layer of snow on some roads, the snow is covered on mountain roads. The Vitiška-Cínovec road in the Ore Mountains, which serves cross-country skiers in winter, is already closed.
It is freezing in the Pilsen and Karlovy Vary regions, but not snowing. All roads are passable, the police have not yet reported any accidents. Drivers should be careful, especially on sections in water protection zones in reserves such as Šumava, Český and Slavkovský les, where the roads are treated with gravel.
There are roads in the Highlands after light snowfall at night passable with extra caution due to slush, which lies on them after salting. In the south of Bohemia, it snowed in some parts even in the morning. The roads there are also passable only with extra caution.
In the Opava region and in the Beskydy, drivers should watch out for snow tongues. The I/56 road in the section Ostravice – Bílá remains closed for trucks and lorries with a trailer or semi-trailer, the road is one of the main roads in Slovakia. WITHhighwaymen and police closed this section for precautionary reasons. The road must not be salted because it runs near a dam with drinking water.
Roads in the Liberec region are passable today with increased caution. In higher locations, they lie on roads according to the information of road officials driven layer of snow covered with sprinkles. It is still snowing in places.
There is snow on most of the roads in eastern Bohemia. Driven snow covers the roads, for example, in the vicinity of Holice, Vysoké Mýt, Broumov, Jičín or in the Železné Hory. A continuous layer of snow also lies on the roads in the Krkonoše and Orlické mountains, in some places it is even icy, in some places it forms tongues of snow.
Drivers in the Zlín region this morning have to be careful again about the slush that covers most of the roads after overnight snow showers. Snow tongues form in Vsetín and Kroměříž regions.
Ice on the D1 highway
On the railway line from Olomouc to Šternberk, train traffic was stopped this morning because a passenger train got stuck in Štarnov due to ice on the catenary line. A replacement bus service has been introduced.
It is snowing in places in central Bohemia this morning, they are passable with extra care. There may be remnants of snow on the road. Snowfall or snow showers can make driving difficult even on some main roads, including highways, for example on On the Prague ring road, on the D5, D8 highway or on the I/3 road in Benešovsk, which is the main route from Prague to Tábor. Ice was also reported on the D1 or D11 highway in the morning.
Prepare for frost
The weekend will mainly be marked by reduced cloud cover and icy days – the highest afternoon temperatures will not rise above freezing point, and in the morning minimums they will drop even below -10 °C in some places. Sunday morning will be especially cold – we will measure as low as -15 °C. On Saturday, it will be partly cloudy or almost cloudy, especially in the mountains in the northeast of the territory, with occasional snow showers. Morning temperatures -7 to -11 °C. Daily temperatures -5 to -1 °C. It will be partly cloudy on Sunday. Places of freezing fog or overcast with low clouds. Morning temperatures -10 to -15 °C. Daily temperatures -6 to -2 °C, the feeling temperature will be reduced by a fresh wind, especially in mountainous areas and in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands.
Temperatures will rise from Monday – but watch out for the glacier
In the next week, warmer air will flow into the Czech Republic from the southwest in the upper layers of the atmosphere – the temperatures there will rise by leaps and bounds already in Monday, and therefore on Monday we expect freezing rain and ice will form. Monday will be cloudy with freezing rain in places. Night temperatures -10 to -14 °C. Daily temperatures -4 to 1 °C. On Tuesday it will be cloudy, freezing fog in places, occasional freezing drizzle. Night temperatures -1 to -5 °C. Daily temperatures 0 to 4 °C. On Wednesday it will be cloudy, freezing fog in places, occasional freezing drizzle. Partly cloudy during the day in the mountains. Night temperatures -1 to -5 °C. Daily temperatures 1 to 5 °C.
When they say black winter
We call the time from St. Lucia (13.12.) to Three Kings (6.1.) the black winter. Our ancestors already named the period before Christmas as the period of black winter. I often feel the same way today in this period, we are tired, sad, often more susceptible to diseases, have reduced performance, concentrate less and are generally prone to depression. We miss daylight.
The driver crashed a bus in Stodůlky and hit a woman, then fled the scene of the accident. (December 16, 2022) Blesk.cz – David Malík
Šumava Prague (13/12/2022)
Author: Flash: JOSEF_KRAL