The northwestern state of Lower Saxony had already seen heavy snow, but so far highways haven't been severely affected as road cleaning crews are managing to keep up.

But some train services have been canceled.

The German weather service says some parts of the country could see anything from 15 to 40 centimeters of snow.

Well, our correspondent Jared Read, is braving that weather out in Hanover Forest in central Germany.

Jared looking pretty cold out there.

The snows just started coming down here in Berlin.

How's it looking where you are?

Well, Rebecca, it's very cold here.

There's a lot of snow that's fallen, and there's still a lot more snow to come.

It's a tale of really extreme weather across Germany this weekend because here in the North we're seeing very cold temperatures being brought down by a non Arctic front being sent down from the Arctic while in southern Germany.

Ah, warm, A low, warm front is bringing wetter, warmer weather, so we have a situation where there is an extreme difference in temperatures between northern and southern Germany, experts say.

This is quite unusual and kind of where I am is smack bang in the middle, where these two fronts our meeting and so we have very high levels off snow.

Snow storms are very slippery roads and extreme weather warnings for much off central and northern Germany this weekend.

How much disruption is the storm causing so far across the country?

Well, emergency services have already bean very busy.

We've had reports off over 200 car accidents on highways in Germany's most popular state, which is North Rhine Westphalia in Germany's west.

The train station behind me here in Hannover has canceled regional and long distance trains, and other cities have had to do.

This is well, they've had to cancel Busses.

What What authorities have told motorists here in Lower Saxony is to prepare for black ice on the roads, so roads will be very slippery.

They're telling people to stay at home if they can.

And yeah, essentially, emergency services have their work cut out for them this weekend.

Mawr staying at home then, eh?

So what are the predictions?

How long are the disruptions likely to last?

Well, whether authorities say that this bad bout of whether will continue into Monday, but that it should stop then.

But they are warning people that it is going to remain very, very cold across much of northern Germany for the rest of the week.

On De W's Jared Read staying out there in the cold for us.

I'm glad to be talking to you from the warm studio.

Jared, stay warm.