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Rain, temperatures around 15 degrees, here and there even snow: Germany is experiencing its first autumn weekend.
In the Upper Black Forest, the first flakes fell on the Feldberg on Saturday, as a meteorologist from the German Weather Service (DWD) said. The snow line was between 1000 and 1200 meters. But the winter landscape is not long-lasting: the thin layer of snow should melt no later than Sunday.
It also turned white on the 1,215-meter-high Fichtelberg in the Saxon Ore Mountains. “The station reported snowfall in the morning,” said a DWD spokesman. In relatively warm terrain and with an air temperature of 0.5 degrees, only a little snow remained.
The white splendor of Germany’s highest mountain should be a little more permanent. “On the Zugspitze there was about 55 centimeters of fresh snow in the last 24 hours,” the weather service said. According to the information, there is about 70 centimeters of snow on the mountain (2962 meters).
Across Germany, Sunday will remain mostly cloudy, with maximum temperatures of 8 to 15 degrees, in the north 19 degrees are possible. Monday should also remain uncomfortable and sometimes humid.
Meanwhile, it got really wintry in Switzerland and Austria. In Montana, in Valais, around 10 inches of snow fell, a record for this time of year, as SRF Meteo tweeted on Saturday along with a photo of a snowman.
At Davos in Graubünden there was 26 centimeters of snow. Many roads in the mountains were covered in snow and several passes were therefore closed, including the Great San Bernardo pass at 2469 meters, where 18 degrees were measured last weekend.
In Austria, the snow reached many valleys on Saturday. At the Bischofshofen meteorological station at an altitude of 550 meters, two centimeters of fresh snow was measured, reported the Central Institute of Meteorology and Geodynamics.
