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After the heavy snowfalls over the weekend in the south of the country, the weather situation calms down only briefly, and winter has our country firmly in its grip. Snow is expected across the country on Wednesday and Thursday.
A first front brings some fresh snow on Tuesday, then on Wednesday or Thursday even large amounts of fresh snow announce themselves again. Only towards the weekend the weather calms down again, according to the experts of the Austrian Severe Weather Center.
First weak front on Tuesday
Until Monday evening, largely calm conditions prevail, a few snow showers still fall today in the northern backwater of the Alps. In the night to Tuesday, light to moderate snowfall will start in Vorarlberg with the front of a North Sea low. Tuesday will thus start with snowfall in Vorarlberg and Northern Tyrol, in the course of the day this will shift to Upper Austria and western Lower Austria, weakening over Salzburg. In the Rhine Valley and Innviertel, rain will also temporarily mix in. The intensity of the precipitation decreases with every kilometer to the east. By the evening at the latest, it dries up again everywhere. This first front brings only in higher elevations of Vorarlberg (Bregenzerwald – Kleinwalsertal – Arlberg – Silvretta) as well as in Northern Tyrol near the Arlberg noteworthy snow accumulation of 10-15 cm. Otherwise, the snow amounts in the Northern Alps are significantly lower.
Föhn storm and fresh snow on Wednesday
On Wednesday, on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, it will be temporarily foehny in the run-up to a stormy low over the British Isles, before the associated frontal system spreads to Austria. In addition, a low pressure system will form over northern Italy, with which large amounts of snow can be expected in the west and south. Initially, a partly stormy foehn will blow eastward from Innsbruck. This still holds back the precipitation somewhat, so that the snowfall is concentrated in the first half of the day in Vorarlberg. “In the afternoon, the Föhn breaks down from the west and the partly heavy snowfall also spreads more and more to Tyrol as well as Carinthia,” says Konstantin Brandes of the Austrian Severe Weather Center. “In the south, it snows intensively especially towards the evening. In the night to Thursday, the snowfall then covers most of Austria, with the largest amounts of snow continuing to be expected in East Tyrol and Carinthia, as well as toward Vorarlberg.”
Snowfall on Thursday
Thursday will start with snowfall in most of the country, but this will become less frequent everywhere during the day and will also subside in the Northern Alps by the evening. The amounts of new snow are quite respectable: A focus will be Vorarlberg and the Tyrolean Oberland or the Tyrolean main ridge of the Alps. “In these regions, 15-30 cm of fresh snow will often fall, up to 40 or even 50 cm are possible around the Arlberg in the high valleys,” said the meteorologist. “The second precipitation focus is clearly in East Tyrol and Upper Carinthia. Here are widespread 30-50 cm of fresh snow expected, in the direction of the Carnic Alps even more than half a meter.” However, amounts around 20 cm are also to be expected in Villach or Klagenfurt. In the Tauern valleys of Salzburg, 20-30 cm of fresh snow are also announced. Snow is also falling in many places in the Alps away from the “hotspots” mentioned, with hardly more than 10-20 cm accumulated from the Karwendel through the Kitzbühel Alps to the Koralpe. A thin snow cover is also possible away from the Alps, but rarely more than 5 cm thick.
- sources: vienna.at/APA/picture:
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