STS captures the spirit of the weather with "Sunn, Sunn, Sunn", but "da kummt die Sunn, i gfrei mi, des is klass" is a very subjective statement, which some people may dislike. Moreover, meteorology always strives for neutral formulations. Rammstein's statement: "Here comes the sun, it's the brightest star of all and will never fall from the sky" is therefore probably more appropriate as a WeatherBlog soundtrack, although the content could of course be debated.
WeatherBlog 8 2019/20 | Da kummt die Sunn
Freely adapted from STS: Sunn, Sunn, Sunn, look she's coming
Current situation
Be that as it may, there has been plenty of sunshine in the last few days and this will continue for the time being. Although small high-altitude lows from westerly directions keep grazing the Alps - which is why the usual sunshine yesterday was somewhat clouded by high clouds - the rather winter-hostile general weather situation remains. The now familiar pattern is still characterized by a fairly strong polar vortex, which has a pronounced cold center roughly in the Greenland area. Cold air flows from there into the northwestern Atlantic, which promotes the development of low pressure. This in turn fuels the westward drift. The frontal zone is too far north for the Alps, but brings some very stormy winter weather to the British Isles (and Iceland anyway). The zonal (= west-east) flow only has minor undulations, which arrive here as short-term clouding of the sunshine. It has also been comparatively very wintry in the southern Balkan countries and Turkey in recent days, where a low pressure system over the Aegean has caused flooding problems in some places and considerable amounts of snow at higher altitudes.
Outlook
In the Alps, the outlook for the next few days is as follows: Today: Sun. Tomorrow (Thursday): Possibly a few clouds in the north. The day after tomorrow (Friday): Probably some clouds in the north and even a snowflake or two in the northwest. Saturday and Sunday: Sunshine. No major changes are currently in sight in the forecast either.
And now?
In the west, you can hope for cosmetic improvements on Friday before the sun dominates again at the weekend. Basically, however, it's probably better to accept that it won't really snow for the time being and use the sunny weather to look for remaining pimple powder, for example, or to train how to deal with wind harsh, melt harsh or a general lack of snow, depending on the exposure and altitude. Stable weather conditions are also practical for multi-day activities. And the last alternative is to go to work and collect overtime for the next PowderAlert. And if you don't like Rammstein as background music in the office, you could perhaps switch to the sun classic by The Velvet Underground: "Who loves the sun? Baabababaaa Not everyone".
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