Be careful, it will be slippery! As befits the season, December immediately brings snow, sleet and rain. According to forecasts, it will snow throughout Austria on Saturday – which of course threatens the usual traffic chaos.
Up at night Friday In most of Austria it starts to rain and snow. In the south it rains up to about 2000 meters, everywhere else the snowfall limit is between low altitudes and 1000 meters. Black ice caused by freezing rain is also possible at night and early in the morning, “especially in the area from the Tyrolean lowlands through the Flachgau, Upper and Lower Austria to the Vienna region,” Geosphere said.
Large amounts of rain accumulate in the south. “It will rain 30 to 50 millimeters especially in Carinthia on Friday, and in the area of the Karawanks and the Carnic Alps it will rain up to about 70 millimeters,” says meteorologist Gerhard Hohenwarter, “small-scale flooding cannot be ruled out. excluded here.”
Up at night Saturday According to the weather forecast, it will cool down and snow in most of the country, but in the south it will still rain in some places. “On Saturday itself it may snow for several hours throughout Austria, even heavily,” says Geosphere. “The exact amounts of new snow are still difficult to estimate. But at the moment it looks like 30 to 50 centimeters of fresh snow for East Tyrol, Carinthia, southern Salzburg and the Upper Murtal,” says Hohenwarter, “in the rest of Austria, according to the current forecast, it will probably be between 30 and 50 centimeters of fresh snow.” ten and 30 or 40 centimeters at low altitude.”
The large amounts of snow could cause problems on roads and railways on Saturday. Power connections can be interrupted if trees fall onto lines under the weight of snow. “You also have to take into account that it is the first shopping Saturday of Advent. “A few centimeters of fresh snow, especially in the big cities, is enough to cause major traffic problems,” said the meteorologist.
Ben Sunday The snowfall disappears quickly and the sun shines, at least for a while. In the west and south it will even be a clear, sunny winter day. It will remain cold all day with maximum temperatures between minus four and plus one degree. Recreational athletes should definitely think about the avalanche danger: “Experience shows that avalanche accidents in open terrain increase on the first sunny days after large amounts of fresh snow,” says the expert.
Source: Krone
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