Category: Austrian News

Meteorologists are expecting temperatures of at least 27 degrees next week, with temperatures in Austria potentially reaching as high as 30 degrees. Despite these high temperatures, stable summer weather is not yet in sight. Summer will not be able to assert itself fully for the time being. Forecasts for June continue to point to changeable weather with lots of precipitation. This rainfall does not typically occur in high-pressure areas, which indicates that low-pressure areas will also continue to influence the weather. This means that there will be a constant change…

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From July 1, the seven-day and 31-day tickets, which have only been available digitally since 2022, will also be available as transferable paper tickets in future. Passengers will then also be able to choose the validity period freely. The ticket range is being standardized. The new transferable season tickets will replace the existing weekly and monthly tickets, Wiener Linien announced in a press release on Tuesday. In future, the period of validity can be freely selected, and the validity according to calendar weeks or months will no longer apply. After…

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Whether the Finns are the happiest people in the world has already been debated. The annual World Happiness Report claims the former, while a Swedish study claims the opposite. Be that as it may, according to the findings of the London-based Institute of Quality of Life and its Happy City Index, Helsinki is not the city with the happiest inhabitants in the world, but Aarhus in Denmark. Although the Finnish capital doesn’t do too badly either, it is ranked 6th, Vienna is 14th, Innsbruck is 29th, and Graz is 48th.…

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Constantly unstable—that seems to be the motto of the spring weather in Austria. The next few days will bring almost everything: sun, rain, thunderstorms, and wind. It will be particularly hot at the weekend, with temperatures of up to 29 degrees, as forecast by Geosphere Austria on Thursday. From Monday on, temperatures will drop slightly, but highs of up to 24 degrees are still possible. On Friday, spring clouds will develop quickly in the morning, and the first showers will appear in the west. Otherwise, the morning will bring dry…

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There has recently been a slight increase in Sars-CoV-2 infections in Austria. At the same time, the KP.2 subline is spreading more and more. The coronavirus pandemic may have been declared over, but the virus remains and regularly produces new variants. Most recently, an entire family has appeared to be spreading at breakneck speed: the “FLiRT” group has evolved from the Omikron lineage JN.1, which has been more successful than any Corona variant before in evading the frontline defenses of immunized people. One variant of this new family outshines all…

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In mid-May, the night sky in many places in Austria turned pink, purple or even green. This was due to auroras, which could also be marvelled at in our latitudes. The spectacle could now be repeated at the beginning of June. Because the sun’s rotation is almost complete, the conditions are good. Not only the Earth rotates, the sun rotates too. It takes 27 days to do this. As a result, the region of the sun where the currently powerful solar storms—the triggers of the auroras—occur does not always face…

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Austria is facing another phase of unsettled weather. Experts warn of new thunderstorm cells that could cause considerable rain in the coming days, especially in some federal states. Heavy rainfall is to be expected along the northern side of the Alps in particular. This weather situation is not expected to stabilize until the middle of the week. Medium-term forecastThe weather situation is not expected to stabilize until the middle of the week. However, it will remain unsettled in the mountains. A strong westerly current will establish itself by the weekend,…

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World record holder Lionel Messi 39, David Alaba 36 – Austria’s Real superstar is now chasing one of the greatest of all time after the Champions League triumph against Dortmund. Black training pants and a white Real shirt with his number 4 on the back—this is how David Alaba sat on the Madrid bench during the Champions League triumph in London. It was in this outfit that he accepted the winner’s medal from UEFA President Alexander Ceferin, and later, while celebrating with the fans, he wore a specially created shirt…

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The World Health Organization (WHO) recently reported a worldwide increase in syphilis. The disease is also spreading in Austria. The WHO has published alarming data showing a significant increase in syphilis cases worldwide. This increase affects both industrialized and developing countries. The reasons for this increase include the rise in international travel, a decline in the use of condoms, and insufficient education about sexually transmitted infections. There is, therefore, a need for increased awareness and preventative measures to curb this sexually transmitted infection (STI), according to Aids Hilfe Wien. As…

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