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IN PICTURES: Snow and bitterly cold temperatures hit Germany

Here's a look at how the bitterly cold weather has been affecting Germany.

Published: 8 February 2021 09:50 CET
Updated: 8 February 2021 14:13 CET
IN PICTURES: Snow and bitterly cold temperatures hit Germany
Snow in Berlin outside the Reichstag on Sunday. Photo: DPA

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Heavy snowfall, temperatures way below freezing and high winds have been hitting many parts of Germany. This selection of tweets, and pictures by DPA photographers across Germany, show how the country looks right now.

READ ALSO: Germany braces for more snow as extreme winter weather causes chaos

A striking winter scene in Wolkersdorf, Bavaria. 

Monday is a complete white out in Leipzig.

These two people have the right equipment for the weather in Erfurt, Thuringia.

A man below is seen clearing the snow outside a shop in Hanover on Monday.

A person braving the snow in Dresden city centre early on Monday morning.

Families make the most of the snow in a Berlin park on Sunday.

The water in the harbour of the Hanseatic city of Stralsund covered with a layer of ice.

Very difficult driving conditions in Ingeln-Oesselse, Lower Saxony.

Henry the pug cosies up to stay warm in snowy Dresden.

READ ALSO: Why Germany is facing extreme winter weather this month

Children playing in the snow in Münster.

Seagulls and wild waves at the Baltic Sea in Strande, Schleswig-Holstein.

Trucks stuck in the snow near Gera in eastern Germany.

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IN PICTURES: ‘Exceptional’ Sahara dust cloud hits Europe

An "exceptional" dust cloud from the Sahara is choking parts of Europe, the continent's climate monitor said on Monday, causing poor air quality and coating windows and cars in grime.

Published: 8 April 2024 14:15 CEST
IN PICTURES: 'Exceptional' Sahara dust cloud hits Europe

Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said the latest plume, the third of its kind in recent weeks, was bringing hazy conditions to southern Europe and would sweep northward as far as Scandinavia.

Mark Parrington, senior scientist at Copernicus, said the latest event was related to a weather pattern that has brought warmer weather to parts of Europe in recent days.

“While it is not unusual for Saharan dust plumes to reach Europe, there has been an increase in the intensity and frequency of such episodes in recent years, which could be potentially attributed to changes in atmospheric circulation patterns,” he said.

This latest episode has caused air quality to deteriorate in several countries, Copernicus said.

The European Union’s safe threshold for concentrations of PM10 — coarser particles like sand and dust that that can irritate the nose and throat — has already been exceeded in some locations.

A picture taken on April 8, 2024 shows a rapeseed field under thick sand dust blown in from the Sahara, giving the sky a yellowish appearance near Daillens, western Switzerland. – An “exceptional” dust cloud from the Sahara is choking parts of Europe, the continent’s climate monitor said, causing poor air quality and coating windows and cars in grime. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

The worst affected was the Iberian Peninsula in Spain but lesser air pollution spikes were also recorded in parts of Switzerland, France and Germany.

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Local authorities in southeastern and southern France announced that the air pollution threshold was breached on Saturday.

They advised residents to avoid intense physical activity, particularly those with heart or respiratory problems.

The dust outbreak was expected to reach Sweden, Finland and northwest Russia before ending on Tuesday with a shift in weather patterns, Copernicus said.

The Sahara emits between 60 and 200 million tonnes of fine dust every year, which can travel thousands of kilometres (miles), carried by winds and certain meteorological conditions.

The Spanish Canary Islands off the coast of northwest Africa saw just 12 days within a 90-day period from December to February where skies were free of Saharan dust, the local weather agency Aemet had reported.

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