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The transition from summer temperatures to the first snowfall occurred almost overnight: on Friday the Timmelsjoch (B186), the connection between the Ötz and Passeier valleys, was closed. Over the course of Saturday night, the snowfall spread to Carinthia and Salzburg, ÖAMTC reported.
In addition to some chain obligations on higher mountain roads, according to the ÖAMTC, the Silvretta Straße (L188) between Partenen and the Vorarlberg-Tyrol border had to be closed on Saturday morning to remove snow. A security barrier has been imposed on the Großglockner High Alpine Road between Salzburg and Carinthia.
Chains were mandatory on Saturday on some major connections from Vorarlberg through Tyrol to Salzburg and Carinthia. The Arlberg Strasse (L197), the (B165) and the Katschberg Strasse (B99) were affected. Around 20 cm of fresh snow also caused problems on Soboth (B69). Some vehicles stopped on the slippery road.
The weather in western Austria is not expected to calm down until the next night. By then, up to half a meter of snow could collect locally.
Where it snowed
Where it snowed overnight: at the Bischofshofen weather station (550 meters above sea level), two centimeters of fresh snow was measured on Saturday morning, at Ramsau / Dachstein (1,207 meters) it was twelve centimeters and at Warth am Arlberg (1,487 meters) to 25, the Zentralanstalt reported. of Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG).
On the Feuerkogel (1,618 meters) there was 30 centimeters of fresh snow on Saturday morning, on the Loser (1,500 meters) a remarkable 40 centimeters. At even higher altitudes, it was even higher: around 27 centimeters in the Villacher Alpe (2,117 meters), 44 centimeters in the Rudolfshütte Alpine Center (2,317 meters) in the Hohe Tauern and 49 centimeters in the Pitztal Glacier (2,864 meters).
The onset of winter at this time of year is not very unusual at higher altitudes. ZAMG climatologist Alexander Orlik: “At an altitude of 1,500 to 2,000 meters, it snows every one or two years at the end of September. The fact that it snows up to 1,000 meters, like this year, occurs in Austria on average every five to seven years, most recently in September 2011. There were also isolated snowflakes up to around 1,000 meters above sea level in September 2015 and 2012. “
Strong to stormy wind gusts
In Gumpoldskirchen, the ZAMG recorded wind peaks of up to 94 km / h, in Vienna in the anniversary waiting room up to 90 km / h and in Obervellach the wind gusts reached around 80 km / h. The storm reached more than 100 km / h in many mountains. At the Dachstein weather station (2,700 meters) and at the Sonnblick observatory (3,106 meters) gusts of around 110 km / h were measured.
