Category: Austrian News

Have you ever wondered why you can afford less despite wage increases? The reason is real wages. According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), these have slipped worldwide due to inflation and last year’s weak GDP growth – and for the first time this century. Wages cannot keep pace with steadily rising consumer prices. That means less purchasing power despite higher salaries. The figures are based on data from Numbeo, the world’s largest cost-of-living database. All amounts have been converted from US dollars to euros. Austria: Average €28,290There is no…

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A surprising number of people have not received their Klimabonus voucher in person at the post office. What will happen to the returned vouchers now?When the increased climate bonus was announced last year, many people were rightly delighted. In an extensive payout campaign, on the one hand, direct transfers of the amount were made to the account officially deposited with Finanz-Online. On the other hand, a Sodexo voucher was sent by RSa letter, which could be redeemed at all partner companies or exchanged for cash at the bank partner. Also,…

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Temperatures will climb again to almost 30 degrees! With the support of a high-pressure area over the Balkans, very mild air will reach the country’s east again on Monday. With the passage of a short wave trough, however, it remains unstable in the northeast. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the high-pressure influence from the southwest continues to increase, and the stable and hot weather for the time of year thus prevails nationwide. On Monday, clouds will quickly dominate in the north and east after a partly friendly start, and rain will…

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From the night to Sunday, often dense cloud fields will move across the sky; for the time being, they will remain without precipitation. There will be a few clearings in between more often in the south. The wind from the west will blow briskly in the north and east; some gusts will be vital. At higher altitudes, the wind will often be gale-force. Significant differences exist in the lowest temperatures; depending on the wind, the lowest temperatures range between 6 and 20 degrees. Possible effectsGeoSphere Austria meteorologists warn of these…

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Fuel prices are rising again in Austria. Diesel drivers are particularly affected. Diesel is already ten cents more expensive than Super. Bad news for motorists: they have to pay more at Austria’s gas stations again, and diesel drivers are being hit. If the litre of diesel was still two cents more expensive than Super on average at the beginning of September, the difference was already ten cents at the end of the month, reports the ÖAMTC. The reason for this is bottlenecks in imports. These are also related to the…

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On Sunday, the sun will shine from Vorarlberg to Carinthia after quickly clearing early fog. In the north and east, dense cloud fields and intermittent light rain will move in during the morning with strong westerly to northwesterly winds, accumulating in the day, especially in the eastern Alps. In the south and especially in the west, it will remain dry. In the afternoon, it will loosen up again from the northeast. Temperatures will reach 16 to 26 degrees from north to south.Foehn and wind cloud the friendly October trend On…

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The current year is on course to be the warmest since records began. That was announced Thursday by the EU’s Copernicus climate change service. The report said the hot September, following a summer of record temperatures, tipped the scales. It noted that average temperatures in 2023 have been 1.4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. That’s only 0.1 degrees below the 1.5 degrees of the Paris climate agreement issued as a climate target, which should not be exceeded in the long term until the end of the century. In September, however,…

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Last September was the hottest ever. On average, it was 3.2 degrees hotter than usual – on the mountains, it was even 4.2 degrees! And October has also been too warm so far: in the coming week, temperatures will rise again to 26 degrees. Geosphere Austria’s long-term forecast shows that the unusually mild weather will likely continue in the coming months. The probability of above-average temperatures from October to December is almost 80%. Only 10% will have a freezing autumn/early winter. The forecast for the individual monthsThe individual months of…

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Because of the high autumn temperatures, there are currently only a few COVID-19 infections, and the symptoms still vary widely, from a cold to severe illness. This is mainly due to immunological reasons – but not only. According to current data from the Ages and the Wastewater Monitoring, almost only XBB variants of Omckron are circulating in Austria, with the Eris sub-variant (EG.5.1) accounting for the lion’s share at 40 percent. One of these pathogens probably caught director Sarah Scherer in September, and the infection was rather severe, the 34-year-old…

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