Current weather

Over the weekend, we will remain embedded in a strong southwesterly foehn flow, which will continue to bring very mild but increasingly humid air towards the Alpine region. The clouds will be predominantly dense, with hardly any foehn-induced bright spells on Sunday. Weak barrier effects of clouds will build up over the main Alpine ridge, and the first precipitation is expected to arrive in the late afternoon. By Monday, the flow will shift from southwest to northwest with a cold front, bringing very humid and increasingly colder air masses from the North Atlantic. Precipitation is to be expected repeatedly, and the snow line will drop below 1000 meters above sea level during the day. The influx of cold air is here to stay, even though the weather is set to improve significantly again on Tuesday. Currently, it looks as though no more precipitation is expected for the rest of next week. However, the winter cold is likely to settle in for the long haul.