Current situation and outlook
A wide area of high pressure over western and central Europe is dominating our weather and providing plenty of sunshine. Warm, subtropical air masses are being directed northwards and the temperatures here and there are already in the region of "summer days" in the meteorological sense (=days on which the 25°C mark is exceeded). Today is likely to be the warmest day of this unusually warm spell. Thursday will also be quite sunny across the board, but a low pressure system in the east will gain some influence. From Friday, there will be more clouds than recently, especially in the eastern Alps, and showers cannot be ruled out. The wind will increasingly shift to the NE and it will become cooler. These changes are not exactly a dramatic "weather plunge", but it will be noticeably colder and less sunny. The weather pattern will be similar towards the weekend: Not really cold, but cooler than at present and no longer completely unclouded sunny, but mostly still quite friendly with usable conditions on the mountain. Depending on the region, you should be prepared for occasional showers. The night-time radiation will no longer be quite as unrestricted as in the last few days and the firn fun may therefore be less reliably predictable.
