Category: Austrian News

April continues – also when it comes to the weather. At least the first half of the week brings warmer temperatures regionally.According to the Geosphere Austria (formerly ZAMG) forecast, the weather will remain changeable and unsettled in the coming days. At least it will be warmer in the first half of the week, at least regionally. Temperatures just below 20 degrees may well occur. Cold front brings rain and snow on TuesdayOn Tuesday, a cold front will cross Austria during the day. Thus, cloud cover will remain widespread, especially during…

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For weeks, scammers in Austria have been up to their mischief online and digitally. Now it is important to pay attention to a new crooks scam. In recent months, there have been an increasing number of fraud attempts in Austria. The so-called “son/daughter trick” is particularly sophisticated. In a short message sent by SMS or Whatsapp, the crooks pretend to be the child of the person being contacted. Because the old cell phone is allegedly damaged, money must be transferred to an account. As before, gullible people fall for this…

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After cloudy-cold days, Austrians can finally soak up some sun again on Easter Monday – but not for long. On Easter Monday, the low-pressure system moves away, and we come under the influence of an intermediate high-pressure system. However, the calm and often sunny spring weather does not last long because, already the night to Tuesday, the frontal design of a low-pressure system called PETER reaches the country from the northwest over the North Sea. During the day, the front spreads further, and thus it becomes wet nationwide. On Wednesday,…

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Today, Easter Sunday, the cold front especially brings gloomy and unsettled weather in the eastern half of Austria sad and unsettled weather – including rain showers and partly snow. Only on Easter Monday the sun comes back intermittently. On Easter Sunday, it will then remain cloudy and cool. In the east, the search for outdoor Easter nests could prove particularly difficult, as rain showers, some of them heavy, are expected during the day. Even isolated snowfalls cannot be ruled out. A few sunny clearings will only appear from Vorarlberg over…

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These days, hundreds of thousands of Viennese will receive a letter informing them about the payment of the next 200-euro bonus. Last year, Viennese households received a 200-euro bonus in their bank account against the increased energy costs. The only condition was that the gross annual income of a single-person household must not exceed 40,000 euros or 100,000 euros for more than one person. Therefore, a total of more than 630,000 households received the bonus. However, because energy, rent, and food prices are still well above pre-crisis levels in 2023,…

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The Easter weekend will be frosty and changeable, according to the forecast of Geosphere Austria. As we search for Easter nests, temperatures in Austria will remain mostly in the single digits. Good Friday starts with sub-zero temperatures; intermittent rain is possible.On Good Friday, minus four to plus five degrees are still expected in the morning, with daytime highs of seven to 15 degrees, Geosphere Austria predicted. It is the warmest in the south of Austria. In addition to many dense clouds, the day in Salzburg, Upper Austria, and parts of…

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The Easter weekend is just around the corner – and many Austrians use the time to travel or visit relatives. The mineral oil managers are rubbing their hands as sales are increasing strongly. Oil prices and the Easter vacations have caused fuel prices to rise again. Like the Amen in the prayer, it goes up each year also with the prices – also this year. Thus gasoline increased on average by 4 cents, and Diesel by a cent to the previous week. This time, however, the companies are not getting…

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General uncertainty is high against rising interest rates, tighter lending guidelines, Corona aftershocks, high inflation and global crises. The real estate market is now feeling the effects of this, with residential sales in 2022 falling back to 2017-2020 levels. And there also appears to be a trend reversal in prices. As an analysis by real estate broker Remax shows, the price increase in the fourth quarter of 2022 was significantly lower than in the previous quarter. “Viewed over the year as a whole, this is, on the one hand,,, a…

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The “Vienna Energy Bonus 23” starting signal is imminent – the bonus can be applied from April 17. This is how it works! Just under 234,000 people will receive the energy cost flat rate of 200 euros.The deadline for applications for the Vienna Energy Bonus 22 ended on March 31, 2022, and the City of Vienna is taking positive stock. The central goal of this support service was achieved: around two-thirds of all Viennese households were quickly and unbureaucratically supported with 200 euros each. “With the Vienna Energy Bonus 22,…

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