Great weather
As quickly as the cold arrived last week, it has now disappeared again. At the beginning of the week, the Atlantic gained influence again and the harbingers of the current disturbances reached the Alps in the form of high clouds on Monday. The sunny, sometimes very cold weather is over and the corresponding Arctic air masses are out of reach again for the time being. What remains is a high wedge extending far to the north, stretching from Central Europe via Scandinavia to Svalbard and clearly disrupting the polar vortex in this area. From a large-scale perspective, the counterpart to this wedge is located in the western North Atlantic: very cold air masses flow southwards to the west of Greenland. Over the warmer ocean, they stimulate the development of low pressure. Over the next few days, an increasingly large-scale low-pressure complex will form there, pumping warm air northwards on its eastern side and thus further strengthening the aforementioned wedge.
