Northern Italy sinks into snow: avalanche covers street gallery in South Tyrol - immediate search for missing persons. A low over the northern Mediterranean.
The air becomes full of water and flows north; it rains in the traffic jams of the Alps and snows in the mountains. In Vorarlberg, two ski hikers were buried by an avalanche on Saturday. In the Aosta Valley on the border with France and Switzerland, many roads are closed. The power is temporarily out and telephone lines are also dead.