Heavy snowfall interrupted traffic at Cologne / Bonn Airport on Thursday. Since about 9.15 clock no takeoffs and landings are possible, said a spokeswoman. Railways and aprons would have to be cleared. "Our winter service is in constant use and clears and clears everything and gives everything so that it can go on soon." How many flights are affected, the spokeswoman could not say.
Travelers are suffering from winter weather not only in North Rhine-Westphalia: snow and ice have caused many problems and delays in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland in the morning rush hour traffic. The Police Headquarters Westpfalz reported 22 weather-related accidents, eleven of them in Kaiserslautern alone. A police spokeswoman in Trier said: "We have some trucks here that are transversal."
On Thursday should fall again up to five inches of snow, said the German Weather Service in Offenbach. Especially in the morning is expected to snowfall. In the course of the day it will be sunny and precipitous. In the night of Friday it should snow again, in the south, the flakes can later pass into sleet. Partly it can also come to freezing rain with increased smoothness.