So there you go. After the drought, a snow taser and tropical downpours (soaked snow cover up to 2400m at the beginning of February??), something like winter now seems to be setting in for at least a little longer. Yes, it's getting warmer again, but it's staying dry and next week there could be some snow again.
Alert period and areas
The alert is in place for the whole of the Nordstau until Wednesday morning in the west and Wednesday evening in the east. From France to the Rax. There is no fixed core, but the largest volumes will probably come from the Bernese Oberland to the very east in the typical congested areas. But beware, this will shift due to the completely absurd hurricane. More on this in the volumes and where
Wind
I always write that it's quite windy, but this time it will be a full hurricane with heavy squalls in the lowlands and a real hurricane from the foothills of the Alps onwards. This is due to a pressure wave pushing past the Alps, creating a massive gradient between our annoying Mediterranean high and the low to the north. Wednesday will be a little less bad, but still stormy.
That's why it's blowing the snow God knows where. I wouldn't assume that there will be too much in the northern foothills of the Alps and expect most of it to be on the main ridge, or just before or even behind it, where the wind is calmer. It will push as far inland as possible
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