The deep wintry weather cycle of Sunday will continue at the beginning of next week. Monday morning will be heavily cloudy with occasional decreasing snow showers. Throughout the afternoon the weather will settle down. Towards Tuesday, the current will veer from northwest to the west and direct a warm front past the north side of the Alps. With partly heavily cloudy conditions it will remain mostly dry. Instead, the frost will decrease. With the turn of the wind to southwest on Wednesday the temporary temperature increase will continue. A southerly foehn wind will revive in the mountains and reach storm force on Thursday. On Wednesday, sunny conditions and cloudy conditions will alternate. On Thursday, weak southerly barrier effects will build up at the main Alpine divide. The attendant cold front will hit us on Friday and finish the southerly current over the Alps. It will become colder again, the snow line will gradually sink below 1000m above sea level.

Foehn storm – southerly barrier effects at the main Alpine divide