The media department of Werder Bremen illustrated the news with an empty stadium, snow on the side, and the place possibly frozen. The text for this was a short one – and yet it gave an idea of what could become reality in other places in the next few days. The game in the women’s Bundesliga against SC Freiburg is because of the “weather-related unplayability” has been canceled, Werder announced on Friday afternoon (February 5th, 2021).
For Bremen’s soccer players it is the second consecutive rejection – last weekend the game at Turbine Potsdam fell victim to the snow. Eintracht Frankfurt’s game against MSV Duisburg has also been canceled. The course in Frankfurt is already unplayable.
Lower Saxony’s sport and the weather report
According to a forecast by the German Weather Service (DWD), the federal states of Bremen and Lower Saxony could be particularly badly affected by the unusual weather situation in the next few days. Extremely heavy snowfalls, stormy gusts, snow drifts and black ice are expected. “The effects of this weather condition will be dramatic”said a DWD spokesman.
The third division meeting between VfB Lübeck and 1860 Munich planned for Saturday was canceled on Thursday.
Snow drifts expected
The DWD has also issued a storm warning for large parts of Lower Saxony and the north and east of North Rhine-Westphalia. A dangerous freezing rain had started there on Saturday evening. At first there were only very small hailstones, said a meteorologist from the German Weather Service in Essen on Saturday evening. Only in Siegerland did the weather experts estimate the risk to be very high and warned of widespread black ice.
From Siegerland, the freezing rain stretches at night in a wide strip over Wuppertal and Düsseldorf to the Dutch border. In this area, at least locally, slippery surfaces can be expected, said the weather service. It could become much more critical in the course of the night further north in NRW. For the region from the Lippe district via Bielefeld and Paderborn to Münster and Unna, the weather service warned of heavy snowfall from 9 p.m. and of extremely heavy snowdrifts from midnight.
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