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It's getting wintry again! What we missed in the height of winter will be delivered in April: With a bit of luck, we'll get a lot more fresh snow over the next few days, especially on the eastern main ridge. And with pretty low temperatures!

Shortly before Easter, the weather will be almost more wintry than at Christmas. It is and will remain relatively cool with a mix of sun and clouds and somewhat more unstable weather from Friday. The cool temperatures don't hide the poor snow conditions, but according to the WeatherBlog's subjective assessment, the snow quality has been significantly worse this season!

Temperatures remain wintry for the time being. There is fresh snow here and there in not very abundant quantities. Overall, the snow conditions still leave a lot to be desired, although the snow quality is often relatively good at the moment thanks to the low temperatures. The wind could have a say in this over the next few days, but the situation will remain more or less as it is, at least until the weekend.

This could be a great season if there is already so much snow in October. Oh wait.... The amount of CRs on PowderGuide makes the sad situation clear. Below 2220m there is virtually nothing and above that we are at 30-60% of the long-term average.

A user question has reached the WeatherBlog: How many days per winter is there snow in Obergurgl? Where can you find data on this? We are always happy to receive questions and especially those that we can answer to some extent! The weather is not very Christmassy, with little snow and too warm, so we prefer to think about other things and today we are looking at weather data from Obergurgl.

We haven't really started the WeatherBlog season yet, but we'll take a quick look. The reason for this is winter, which is also popping in for a quick look, but then unfortunately turns around and goes back to sleep. It will snow heavily over the next few days, especially on the southern main ridge. There is less in the north, but here too the snow line is dropping towards 1000m.

The 21st PowderGuide season was rather mixed in many respects: the pandemic is still giving us a hard time and more snow would have been nice. But as always, there were also good sides: Lots of sunshine for extended tours, the odd powder day in between, and of course the exchange with the PG community!

Long awaited and now almost here: a real change in the weather with plummeting temperatures and snow in many valleys is just around the corner. Over the next few days, it will be deep winter again in the Alps

Ullr takes heart in best politician style and promises everything to everyone! At least in the German-speaking Alpine region, things should be going quite well from Monday. (German-speaking regions south of the main Alpine ridge may forgive me this simplification...)

The PowderGuide weather service is back so you can follow the snowfall forecast for the weekend on the PowderMap again! As usual, in addition to new snow forecasts, a forecast text and the SNOWGRID and sunshine maps are also available.

PA 15 had it all. The fact that a continuous blanket of snow forms in April even in the valleys - even if only briefly - is not completely unusual from a climatological point of view, but it is rather unexpected. Especially if you were still wearing a T-shirt just beforehand! What's more, it snowed both north and south of the main Alpine ridge! What was going on?

Over the last few days, the media has repeatedly reported on collapsed roofs in the snowy regions south of the main Alpine ridge. How much snow load must a roof actually be able to withstand and how many kilograms of snow are currently on Austria's roofs?