Freezing temperatures and slippery roads on Monday morning in NRW: this causes long traffic jams. It’s especially bad on the A2.
Cologne – The new week starts just as frosty North Rhine-Westphalia: Of the German Meteorological Service (DWD) reported freezing with minus one to minus five degrees. In the mountains, temperatures were even as low as minus eight degrees.
The DWD warns of slippery roads due to wet and light snowfall. The wintry road conditions are noticeable: Monday morning there are nearly 120 kilometers of traffic jams on the NRW motorways, reports the WDR, among others.
The longest traffic jams in detail:
For the course of the day, the DWD continues to expect light permafrost, particularly in the mountains. In the evening and in the night of Tuesday, it should be very cold again with temperatures between minus five and minus nine degrees. Afterwards, drivers must once again drive very carefully in rush hour traffic.
► Like “Arctic Outbreak” is the name given to an advance of arctic cold air far into the southern latitudes of the northern hemisphere.
► The result: freezing temperatures and snow chaos.
► Canada and the American Midwest, for example, are more likely to be affected by this phenomenon.
► This is ensured by the polar vortex, which usually forms above the pole in winter. Normally, its center is more or less stable over the Arctic. If this stability weakens now or if the polar vortex even splits – for example due to a strong warming of the stratosphere – then partial vortices are pushed towards southern latitudes. These then provide strong pushes of cold air far to the south, such asr DWD writing. And that means: cold spells, permafrost and large amounts of snow – even on the plains.
In addition, the moist and cold air of polar origin determines the weather in North Rhine-Westphalia. Meteorological experts talk about the arctic epidemic. pen) Accurate and independent information about what is happening in NRW – here our free 24RHEIN Newsletter to subscribe to
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120 kilometers of traffic jams in NRW – it’s especially bad on the A2
What is an arctic epidemic?
- A1 to DortmundCologne: Two kilometers of traffic jams between Burscheid and Kreuz Leverkusen-West. And on the road from Euskirchen towards Cologne, there are three kilometers of traffic jams between Boklemünd and Kreuz Köln-Nord.
- A2: Drivers need to be especially patient here. On the A2 Hanover-Oberhausen, traffic is slowed down in both directions between Dortmund-Lanstrop and Dortmund-Nordwest for about ten kilometers. Traffic is also slow between Bottrop and Kreuz Oberhausen.
- A4, Cologne towards Aachen: Five kilometers of traffic jams between Aachen and Aachen-Laurensberg.
- A30: Ten kilometers of traffic jam between Rheine and Slazbergen.
- A40: Road from Venlo towards Duisburg: Three kilometers of traffic jams between Rheinhausen and the Neuenkamp bridge over the Rhine. In addition, on the Duisburg-Essen axis, seven kilometers of traffic jams and traffic slowdown between Mülheim-Winkhausen and Essen-Holsterhausen. In addition, ten kilometers of congested traffic on the Sortmund-Duisburg route between Bochum-Wattenscheid and Dreieck Essen-Ost.