Lea Hartl

Today, the WeatherBlog is happy about the successes of modern science. As a student at an advanced stage, you occasionally ask yourself why you are actually doing what you are doing and who benefits from it. The usefulness of your own doctoral or master's thesis in particular may be questionable, but occasionally science in general achieves something cool and then you have the feeling that somehow and in general something is going right.

After a week of stable high pressure and temperatures around 20 °C, cooler, changeable north-westerly weather is on the cards for the weekend. However, it is still unclear whether there will be significant snow or just significant wind.

After changeable carnival days with mini-northern congestion, high-pressure weather increasingly prevails and provides plenty of sunshine and mild temperatures for spring fever.

From a meteorological point of view, spring begins at the beginning of March, which we, as well as various weather services, take as an opportunity to look at a few key statistical data. Otherwise: A greeting from the desert turns the snow yellow.

Although the Mammut Meron Jacket is one of the top models from the current Mammut collection made from Gore-Tex Pro, the jacket is quite simple and lightweight, as there are no frills. Of course, this does not mean that the jacket is not made to a very high standard and also looks quite stylish!

Nothing fundamental is changing in the Alps for the time being: in the north, spring flowers are swaying in the foehn, in the south it is raining or snowing heavily. This week, we look beyond the Alps and take a look at tropical oceans and fire-breathing mountains in Indonesia.

There are now quite a few good, downhill-oriented touring boots, but which one is the right one? Often a difficult question...

The WeatherBlog is tired from skiing, so this week just a bit of framing for the PowderAlert

PowderGuide über-user Tobi asks: how do such pronounced southern winters or, last winter, northern winters come about? I'm aware that there is a certain tendency to preserve the snow. But the fact that it always turns out to be as extreme as this winter is astonishing.

The northern congestion was short-lived and we fall back into a south-westerly situation that is quite impressive: While there are warnings of heavy snowfall and high to very high avalanche danger on the southern slopes of the Alps, the north can expect a mild foehn.

A strong Azores high will bring a northerly flow to the Alpine region. This will bring wintry temperatures and precipitation. Where exactly the latter will end up is still somewhat uncertain.

"On Sunday (refers to the week before last [5.1.14]) it snowed wet in the south, in some places up to over 2000 m, and after a starry night, dry powder was also to be found much lower down on Monday. (...) I've been thinking about a build-up transformation of the wet fresh snow. Is that conceivable?"