Yulia brought temperatures above 20 °C to Innsbruck for the first time this year and rain up to very high altitudes in the mountains. There was wind damage, especially in Lower Austria, where Yulia was more severe than Sabine in some places.
Current situation
The current, more or less wintry interlude brought by low pressure Zehra, which has already been addressed by the PowderGuide.com, is of course much more pleasing for suffering winter friends. Let's look at the big picture first. Not too much has changed here since last week and the week before that and the week before that and the week before that. The polar vortex is and remains roundish and strong. To the west of Greenland, cold air flows south, which stimulates the development of low pressure in the northwest Atlantic. The Atlantic lows then move fairly directly towards Europe in the strong westerly drift, with some of them meandering a little more than others along the way.
The repeating pattern in the Alpine region looks like this: Warm air advection occurs in front of the trough (to the east) of the approaching low - due to the direction of rotation of the low, warm air from the south is pushed into the Alps. With the arrival of the warm front, rain joins the high temperatures. The trough moves on, the current turns from SW to NW, a cold front may bring some cooling and a little snow, then it will be sunny for a short time, then the next low will be just around the corner.