Lea Hartl

The year 2019 is still young, but already has a lot to offer in terms of snow: one alarm follows the next and winter really seems to have arrived, at least in the north-east of the Alps. The west and especially the south will have to make do with artificial snow and the remnants of the early season snowfalls for the time being.

The Alps are under the influence of a powerful high over Western Europe. For the time being, it will remain mostly sunny with mild temperatures for the time of year.

Western weather will bring repeated disturbances over the next few days with significantly milder temperatures than recently. By Friday, considerable amounts of fresh snow in the west, albeit with a very high snow line.

While the weekend was still characterized by mild westerly weather (which is not bad for higher altitudes), low pressure system Marilou took over from the north at the beginning of the week and gave the entire northern slope of the Alps a pretty white dress.

The Alps are caught in a strong westerly flow, which is currently causing very unsettled weather and mild temperatures. There are signs of a cold air advance for the coming weekend, which could bring heavy snowfall down to low altitudes on the northern slopes of the Alps.

The Atlantic wakes up at the start of winter and brings snow to the western Alps on Friday. Otherwise: The east is still waiting for the big snow, from the weekend onwards the weather trend will be rather unwintry everywhere again, the fall was unusually warm and there are fewer inversions in Austria.

After the welcome cooling, including snowflakes in the lowlands at the start of the week, the cold air supply is now being turned off again. There is a threat of low gradient, gloomy weather with a tendency towards mild, foehn-like temperatures at high altitudes and inversion torpor in the valleys.

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The WeatherBlog is slowly waking up from its summer slumber, even if the current weather is rather tempting to throw the alarm clock out of the window and turn over again. After the first hopeful harbingers of winter, a tough blocking situation has dominated events for some time now. Nevertheless, the block is shifting and temperatures are dropping. And: Tomorrow, the PG Weather Service will also start the season!

As can be seen from the current PowderAlert, we are currently in a large-scale westerly current that is not only relatively cool but also relatively damp. The resulting snowfall in the northwest will be followed by südstau and Föhn in the north. Once again.

After the statistically inclined meteorologists have already thought it was spring since the beginning of the month, the more astronomically oriented calendars are now following suit and have also been proclaiming the new season since yesterday (March 20). Meanwhile, the weather is unimpressed by this and that and remains rather wintry as usual.

Today, Wednesday, is still characterized by a short-lived intermediate high, but there is already a strong new low off the Iberian Peninsula. Bit by bit, it is closing in on the high and should make its presence felt as early as tomorrow night with a strong south-westerly flow.