Alpen

The PowderAlert has already announced that the recent snowfall will be followed by a longer period of high pressure with sunshine everywhere and relatively mild temperatures. Good for touring, bad prospects for all those who want fresh snow.

Normally we are happy about every alarm, but here the future looks rather sad. Will winter soon end again after the great start? More on this in the medium term. And before that, there will be more snow in the north. Anyone who still wants to take a vacation should seriously think about it.

A small high-pressure bridge has moved between a low over Scandinavia and one in the Aegean and is currently providing sunny, high-pressure weather in the Alps. Tomorrow, Thursday, a small disturbance will move through, bringing snow showers to the western Alps and some clouds to the east.

Ullr has ordered a strange weather situation: Once for all powder and in the southeast also with sharp in terms of volumes. Unfortunately, there isn't cold powder for everyone, as Ullr is busy spreading the low over the whole of the Alps. And since air mass opposites, roughly simplified, are responsible for our lows, there has to be warm air on one side.

The persistent, very heavy northern precipitation has come to an end and a high with a core in the western Mediterranean will dominate the weather in the Alpine region today, Wednesday. Over the next few days, there will be minor disturbances from time to time, but compared to the weather of the last two weeks, it will remain calm. Time to take a deep breath, dig out the cars and shovel off the roof.

In addition to war zone-like reports from the Alps and #Powstria, you can currently also read headlines such as: "Skier suffocates in meter-high snow". In addition to the high risk of avalanches, days of intense fresh snowfall are accompanied by completely different dangers.

"There ain't no party like a Nordstau party because a Nordstau party don't stop!" Unfortunately, the party part is long gone in the east and people are more likely to be hungover about the recent large amounts of fresh snow. Only in Switzerland can you still look forward to it, although there too the danger of avalanches will cloud the fun from Wednesday.

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.

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.

Countless ideas and observations were put down on paper for the International Snow Science Workshop 2018. One of them was the result of a collaboration between Kristian Rath, an observer at the Bavarian LWD, and the Snow Sturgeon: A schematic overview map of the "core areas" of the ground-level weak layers in the Alpine region and their connection to the tree species distribution.

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!