WeatherBlog 15 2017/18 | Winter is not over yet

As more-or-less Alpine skiers, the WeatherBlog and PowderAlert have a certain weather bias when it comes to reporting on snow, especially in the "central" Alpine region, which extends roughly from Mont Blanc to the Tauern mountains. Everything to the west, east and south of this axis is already pretty exotic, with Piedmont at most still more or less established as an occasional, "exotic" powder hotspot.

Snow in the south-east?

There are still other corners where it snows from time to time and which even have a few mountains. Currently, the development in the far east, from a Tyrolean perspective, is exciting. First and foremost because the weather situation and model runs leave plenty of scope for wintry dreams, which change with every run. As is so often the case with Mediterranean lows, small changes in the track can cause comparatively large changes and so the forecasts are currently fluctuating every few hours between amounts of fresh snow by Friday of nothing to 60cm in Wiener Neustadt, for example (we're guessing: more than nothing but much less than 60cm). Perhaps the Bucklige Welt, also known as the "Land of 1000 Hills", will be the next in-destination for exotic powder? The WeatherBlog is already dreaming of artistic photo stories in ski magazines, with lots of lifestyle and black and white images.

It always gets exciting when two air masses with different temperatures meet, for example continental cold air and warm, humid Mediterranean air. If the cold air spreads to the entire Alpine region, the conditions will tend to be dry and cold. If it remains a little further north, depending on the exact position of the air mass boundary, a more changeable borderline weather situation could result in terms of snow. But then, as usual, the serious dreams of the future come to an end and, for the time being, we are left with wishful thinking and at least a fairly certain lowland winter, in the sense of cold even at low altitudes.