Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) – It will be bitterly cold and frosty at the start of the week in Baden-Württemberg. According to the German Weather Service (DWD), there will be light and moderate permafrost across the country on Monday and Tuesday night. In the southern Black Forest, on the Alb and in parts of Upper Swabia, this will also be severe with temperatures down to minus 17 degrees Celsius. Locally slippery weather due to frost, freezing wet or snow and fog can be expected on Monday. In the course of the week, the daytime temperatures should only rise above zero degrees on Wednesday, said a spokesman for the DWD on Monday.

It was already freezing in the southwest on Monday night: According to the spokesman, minus 19 degrees were measured in Leutkirch im Allgäu (Ravensburg district). In Meßstetten (Zollernalbkreis) it was minus 17 degrees, in Geisingen (Tuttlingen district), Pfullendorf (Sigmaringen district) and Villingen-Schwenningen the temperatures fell to minus 16 degrees.