The onset of winter in the Alps at the beginning of autumn is not unusual.
But a temperature difference of almost 30 degrees and a meter of fresh snow within a day did.
While it is raining in the lowlands, thick snowflakes are already falling in the Alps.
On the Zugspitze, the thermometer goes into the double-digit minus range.
The day before in Davos, Switzerland, it was still 20 degrees plus.
Munich
- After this weekend at the latest,
summer 2020 will
finally be history.
Not only is it
pouring out of buckets
in large parts of
Germany
and the
temperatures are
in the single digits,
the first
snow
in the
Alps
is
already
heralding
the
winter season
.
However, tourists and day trippers were often surprised by the white splendor.
Onset of winter in the Alps: Snow and freezing temperatures on the Zugspitze
On Germany's highest mountain, the
Zugspitze
, the weather * is really uncomfortable even on Friday evening.
While it rains abundantly in the valley, the
precipitation
turns
into
snow
at almost 3000 meters above sea level at minus nine degrees
.
At night it can even be double-digit minus values.
The wind * whistles in hurricane-like gusts from the west.
This
weather situation will
not change
until Saturday evening
.
It only gets friendlier on Sunday.
The
temperatures
remain frozen below zero.
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Tomorrow you can have a good rest: It's đ¨ď¸ wet đ§ď¸ and cool almost everywhere.
âď¸ Snow fans should consider a trip to the đď¸ Alps.
âď¸
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- wetteronline.de (@WetterOnline) September 25, 2020
A similar picture emerges with the neighbors in the Austrian
Tyrol
.
Sankt Christoph am Arlberg (1,800 meters) is only half as high as the
Zugspitze
, but here the flakes fall from the sky en masse.
More
than ten centimeters of
fresh snow
came together on Friday evening, reports
wetteronline.de
.
The
winter service
has their hands full.
It is also possible that one or the other pass will be closed due to the snowfall.
Overall, the weather service assumes that there
may be
a meter of
fresh snow
in congestion by the end of the weekend
.
Onset of winter in the Alps: parts of Switzerland are sinking under the snow
There, where the most powerful in the world meet once a year, in the Swiss town of
Davos
, it is also snowing copiously.
A good 25 centimeters of
fresh snow
has already fallen here.
But no problem for the locals.
One is used to the fact that there can be such
snowfalls
at the beginning of autumn
, says the commentator of a video on site.
Only the change from warm to cold was a bit surprising.
On Thursday it was
still almost 20 degrees
in the city in the canton of
GraubĂźnden
.
A day later, the
snow
covers
the previously green meadows.
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