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Onset of winter in Bavaria and Tyrol: minus 9 degrees and half a meter of fresh snow

2020-09-27T18:23:55.876Z


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.


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.

You can track the weather in Bavaria in our Bayern ticker.

Tomorrow you can have a good rest: It's 🌨️ wet 🌧️ and cool almost everywhere.

❄️ Snow fans should consider a trip to the 🏔️ Alps.

☂️


The details as always in Germany's weather: https://t.co/eMGsxsgIGc pic.twitter.com/YUwq5u0O9e

- 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.

(tel) * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network.

You can find everything about weather in Germany in our current news ticker *.

List of rubric lists: Š Frank Leonhardt / dpa

Source: merkur

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