In large parts of the country, people can look forward to mostly bright weather with little rain over the holiday weekend. In Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, Saarland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, temperatures can climb to 22 to 24 degrees. In Baden-Württemberg there should be the most beautiful weather on Sunday.

On Father's Day, temperatures will rise to up to 19 degrees on the Rhine and Main, according to the German Weather Service (DWD), and even 20 degrees on the Upper Rhine. At high altitudes, the maximum temperatures are expected to be 13 degrees. At times, however, clouds are not expected to bring in rain. In North Rhine-Westphalia and Saxony it is expected to be a little cooler. In Saxony, frost can occur near the ground at night.

On Friday, temperatures are expected to climb further in many places – up to 22 degrees.

On Saturday, isolated showers are possible in Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, Saarland and North Rhine-Westphalia, but it will often remain dry. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern it will be cloudy during the day. For Sunday, the German Weather Service even expects temperatures of up to 24 degrees.

Up to five meters of snow on the Zugspitze

Less sun awaits the people in Thuringia. Here, too, according to the German Weather Service, frost should occur at night near the ground. On Ascension Day, however, the sun will often show up at temperatures between 13 and 15 degrees.

It also remains cooler in Lower Saxony, Bremen and Saxony-Anhalt, where temperatures could even drop into the minus range at night. But here, too, as in Saxony-Anhalt, it should remain largely rain-free. On Friday, clouds and sun will alternate again and again, it will remain rain-free. The temperatures climb a little to values between 17 and 20 degrees.

Meanwhile, the rainy May in Bavaria has led to abundant rainfall on the Zugspitze. In the past few hours alone, more than 30 centimetres of fresh snow have fallen there. From the Zugspitzbahn, it was said that the snow masses had grown to a height of five meters in some cases.