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WeatherBlog 14 2018/19 | Outlook: Sun

High pressure as far as the crystal ball can see

by Lea Hartl 02/13/2019
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.

Current situation and outlook

There is not much to add to the above: High pressure from Spain to Scandinavia. Today, there are still remnants of the high-altitude cold air in the eastern Alps, but this will also be pushed away tomorrow and it will become increasingly milder and less windy from west to east by Friday. Sunny, mild and windless weather can also be expected for the weekend. Regions prone to fog are, well, prone to fog. At the beginning of next week, the crystal ball may see a few clouds produced by a low pressure system moving northwards, but no fundamental changes are currently foreseeable.

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Appreciate your weather stations

After taking a look at the weather internet in the Alps, the overseas WeatherBlog also tries to plan its weekend activities and realizes (not for the first time): In the Alps, you are incredibly spoiled in terms of the wealth of information available with just a few clicks. If you want to ski in the Alaska Range without skido or air support, the options are limited to two roads that roughly cross the mountain range in a north-south direction, otherwise you simply can't get there. So it's not as if you need an overview of the entire 650 km long mountain range for a weekend trip. A rough idea of what it looks like to the left and right of the two roads would be very helpful.

For the sake of a purely numerical comparison, let's limit ourselves to the Delta Range, the eastern part of the Alaska Range located on the Richardson Highway. The length of the Delta Range is approximately 150 km, which is roughly the same as the distance from Landeck to Kuftstein. The Tyrolean Avalanche Warning Service can rely on around 200 weather stations, nicely distributed across different altitudes, exposures and sub-regions, to get an overview of its own area of responsibility.

The Eastern Alaska Range Avalanche Center, a loose community of half a dozen reasonably hard-working people, theoretically responsible for the Delta Range, has been trying for several years to set up a single weather station. They now have the measuring instruments together: donated remnants of a university project that nobody else needs. There is currently a problem because it is unclear who owns the piece of land and where the station should be located, so they don't know exactly whether and where they should ask for permission. In addition, you first have to find the time and nerves for such a project if you don't earn your money with it, but with an office job far away from the mountains. Nobody is paid at EARAC. There's not even the slightest chance of a regular situation report.

So the WeatherBlog will be going somewhere at the weekend on the off chance that it doesn't snow for a while, but at least you over there know where there's already snow and what the weather has been like in the last few days. Take advantage of the dense measuring network in the Alps and the many different sources of information for tour planning and enjoy the sun!

This article has been automatically translated by DeepL with subsequent editing. If you notice any spelling or grammatical errors or if the translation has lost its meaning, please write an e-mail to the editors.

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