Geosphere Austria forecasts that the weekend weather will remain mainly sunny and characterized by cold temperatures under the influence of high pressure. The new week, on the other hand, will start off unsettled. The trend will continue as the week progresses, with the snow line dropping to up to 800 meters on Tuesday. Sunny winter weather on SaturdayHigh pressure will bring sunny winter weather across the country on Saturday. Local patches of early morning fog will remain flat and dry out quickly. The wind will moderately freshen from westerly directions,…
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Filipino community in Vienna will celebrate the Sinulog-Santo Niño Festival on January 21, 2024
The Filipino chaplaincy in Vienna and the Kapunungan sa mga Bisaya sa Austria will again celebrate the traditional Sinulog Festival on Sunday, January 21, 2024, at the Filipino Catholic Chaplaincy church in Vienna’s 10th district. 9 days A Novena in honour of Sto. Nino (Child Jesus) is currently taking place in preparation for the big feast. The Sinulog-Santo Niño Festival, or Sinulog for short, is an annual cultural and religious festival held in the Philippines to celebrate the Santo Niño, or Child Jesus. Traditionally held on the third Sunday of…
Read MoreCash payments over 10,000 euros prohibited
Cash payments of more than 10,000 euros will be banned in the European Union. Negotiators from the European Parliament and member states agreed on EU-wide regulations against money laundering on Thursday, intending to close loopholes in national laws. Dealers in luxury goods will also have to verify the identity of their customers and report suspicious transactions to the authorities. Trade in luxury goodsThe stricter rules apply to the trade in jewelry, luxury cars, private aircraft, and ships, among other things. According to the agreement, the new law will apply to…
Read MoreWeather forecast: Brief onset of winter before it gets warmer again
Geosphere Austria is forecasting a brief onset of winter on Friday night before the weather becomes increasingly mild again. Although the highs will rise steadily until Tuesday, reaching twelve degrees, the early temperatures will remain frosty.Friday morning will still bring plenty of clouds and snow in the country’s southern parts and partly in the west; otherwise, it will be mostly dry. In the afternoon, the clouds will clear quickly from the northwest, and the sun will often still be out. It will remain largely cloudy only in the south and…
Read MoreCorona vaccination has already saved around 25,000 lives in Austria
By March 2023, coronavirus vaccinations had saved over 1.4 million lives in Europe and around 25,000 in Austria. This resulted from a World Health Organization (WHO) Respiratory Disease Surveillance Network study. The study shows once again: “It becomes critical from the age of 60,” and vaccination is “essential” from the age of 80, wrote molecular biologist Martin Moder on Platform X on Wednesday. Most deaths were prevented after the third dose. Research results have not yet been published in a specialist journalThe research results were published on a preprint server,…
Read More10 things that happen when you eat an egg every day
Do you eat eggs sparingly so as not to drive up your cholesterol levels? In fact, the food doesn’t have the best reputation at the moment; it doesn’t fit in with the trendy vegan lifestyle and is perceived as unhealthy by many people. The latter is completely wrong! We’ll tell you why you should definitely include eggs in your daily diet. These things happen when you eat an egg every day: You lose weightStudies have shown that people who eat eggs for breakfast lose weight faster. This is because eggs…
Read MoreThis is the safest seat on an airplane
Airplanes are becoming safer and safer, and flying is generally the safest form of transportation. Regarding flight safety, 2023 was the second safest year on record. The Flight Safety Foundation evaluates incidents and accidents every year. There were 135 accidents, five fatalities, and 105 passenger deaths on the 35 million routes examined. The average over the last five years is 13 fatal accidents and 300 deaths per year. That may sound like a lot, but it’s still dramatically low. A study by Northwestern University in the USA compared the death…
Read MoreRisks of shopping at online low-cost stores!
Everything under 100 euros and two free printers to boot: Who wouldn’t go for it? But, as usual, there is a catch. Online stores with breathtakingly low prices are no longer a rarity. We come across them on almost all platforms, and they are becoming increasingly visible with all kinds of advertising campaigns. The online mail-order company Temu, in particular, has been indispensable in Europe since the beginning of 2023 at the latest and is currently high up on the app charts. According to lawyer Christian Solmecke, partner at law…
Read MoreAre headphones safe or harmful?
There are now different types of headphones, with or without cables, large or small. When they harm our hearing health. Most of us use headphones every day to listen to music or podcasts; some of us even watch a series. Headphones have even become very popular for making phone calls. Is this harmful to us, or are headphones safe? Headphones only have a negative impact on our hearing health if we exceed the usage time and the volume is permanently too high. The incorrect use of them repeatedly causes hearing…
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