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- The snowfalls have caused problems for rail and road traffic. Several railway lines are closed.
- In Engadin, Poschiavo is isolated from the rest of Switzerland.
- The heavy snowfall is likely to last locally into the evening.
In Switzerland it will continue to snow until around Monday evening, reports SRF Meteo. The snow line falls in Ticino at 600 to 800 meters. This means that there is still a great danger of avalanches.
In some areas of Ticino, in the south of Graubünden and in the Engadine, the snow has fallen almost without interruption since the early hours of Friday. Sometimes the snow turned to rain.
At Airolo, another 53 centimeters of fresh snow was measured on Sunday morning, and the total depth of snow increased to 105 centimeters. In the canton of Graubünden, 100 centimeters of snow fell in San Bernardino and 75 centimeters in Scuol.
In the eastern parts of the country and in the south, according to Meteonews, rainfall is likely to continue overnight. This is expected to add another 20 and locally up to 50 centimeters of snow between southern Valais, the Gotthard region and southern Grisons on Monday morning.
Several railway lines in Graubünden interrupted
Large amounts of snow created problems for the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn, among other things, which reported a temporary disruption on the route between Andermatt and Sedrun on Sunday morning on Twitter. The Furka car transport service, however, was suspended until further notice on Sunday. The reason for this was the closure of the road between Realp and Hospental due to the danger of avalanches.
The Rhaetian Railroad reported several outages on the line on Sunday. Therefore, the route between Schanf and Scuol-Tarasp was interrupted due to the risk of snow slides. Due to the danger of avalanches, the RhB closed the Bernina line between Pontresina and Poschiavo on Saturday night. Since the road was also closed, replacement buses could not be used.
In addition, due to heavy snowfall, the railway temporarily stopped rail traffic between Chur and Arosa.
Many accidents on the streets
The snowfall also caused problems on the streets. In the canton of St. Gallen alone, there were more than a dozen personal accidents with property damage between Saturday and Sunday. In the canton of Graubünden there were more than two dozen traffic accidents over the weekend.
Some roads in Ticino were closed, not only because of snowfall. There was a rockfall near Gudo. Due to a landslide, the cantonal road between S. Nazzaro and Vairano was closed.
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