Snowfall leaves Germany braced for more

Snowfall leaves Germany braced for more
By Matt Millham, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Thursday, November 15, 2007

Germany got its first widespread snowfall on Wednesday, and more could be on the way by Sunday.

“It’s starting early this year,” said Air Force Capt. John Raczkowski, of the 21st Operational Weather Squadron at Sembach Air Base, Germany.

Snowflakes that dropped late Tuesday and throughout the day Wednesday were the last throes of a system that on Saturday dropped about 5 feet of snow on the Zugspitze near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, according to Raczkowski.

The snow kept the ski slopes of the Zugspitze — Germany’s highest peak — from opening over the weekend.

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Groomers couldn’t prep the slopes fast enough, and the opening has been tentatively pushed back to this weekend.

In Wednesday’s storm, Garmisch, home of the Edelweiss Lodge and Resort and the George C. Marshall Center, got about 8 inches of new snow by noon, Winter said. “This is about the third time it’s snowed,” she said.


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uhc comment: Looks like Al Gore was right.