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Winter weather is coming to life—and with it, the WeatherBlog. After a record-breaking summer in terms of heat and water shortages across much of Europe, the situation has unfortunately not improved this fall. Whether that will change this winter remains to be seen. Right now, though, it certainly looks that way—it already snowed last night, and it looks like we’ll get quite a bit more by the weekend. So it’s high time to wake the WeatherBlog from its summer slumber and take a look at what’s happening on the weather front.

White mountains guard blooming flowers in green valleys, those who forget their sunscreen will regret it and early birds catch the firn.

It is currently becoming clear how little sense the idea of "good" and "bad" weather makes. If you have too much of one, it soon becomes the other. The extremely dry November is increasing the risk of forest fires, particulate matter concentrations in the basins are reaching record levels and, unsurprisingly, almost all ski resorts without glaciers are postponing their openings. Some weather stations in the Alps will probably end November with 0.0 mm of precipitation.