WeatherBlog 1 2023/24 | Welcome to winter

Current situation and outlook

We have a low-pressure complex to thank for the wintry conditions, which is currently located over northern Central Europe. Even further north, there is a pronounced area of high pressure, so we have a so-called high-over-low situation. These are often quite long-lasting and remain in place for a long time. In our case, too, the low pressure will continue to dominate the weather over the next few days, although there will certainly be some sunshine and powder here and there today, Wednesday, with the influence of intermediate highs.

There will be turbulent ups and downs in temperatures with more precipitation and storms. The large-scale low will remain more or less stationary, but the fronts and peripheral lows embedded in it will ensure varied weather. Thursday is likely to be much warmer with a föhn wind and a warm front will bring the next round of snow. However, this time with higher snowfall limits and rain in the valleys. The exact development is still very uncertain, especially on Friday. The main focus of precipitation will probably be in the south-east (IT-AT-SLO border triangle), but it's still unclear whether it will be a super-insane megadump or rather wet and cold slushy weather with snow only in the high mountains. The oracle will definitely get back to us in due course.

Tutorial PG-ICON weather #1: Navigation and information

First of all, the appearance of PG-ICON weather depends on the window width. In a generously wide window, the forecast variables are displayed with icons and text on the left-hand side. The snow forecast for today is displayed as standard. The variables are divided into snow and weather. The forecast date is selected at the bottom left and the ICON weather model at the bottom right.

There are text descriptions for all variables, influences and models, which can be called up with an i-symbol button.

The initialization date is displayed at the bottom left. We start our analysis daily at 4 a.m. and by 6 a.m. at the latest, the forecast should be updated and the initialization date should correspond to today.

The sum sign allows you to accumulate the amount of new snow and rain from the initialization, i.e. to add it up.

The plus sign unlocks the archived forecasts from the past. Here we show the forecast for the initialization day, which should describe the day's weather reasonably reliably.