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In several places in Switzerland, the temperature dropped below minus 20 degrees at night. Now a strong foehn storm is expected.
In Switzerland, temperatures fell into the negative range in many places overnight on Sunday. (Symbol image)
Sunday night brought Switzerland the lowest temperatures so far this winter. In Toggenburg, the thermometer sank to almost 30 degrees below zero.
In the Alp Hintergräppelen in the canton of St. Gallen, the temperature was 29.6 degrees below zero at night, as SRF Meteo tweeted on Sunday. The last time the temperatures dropped this much in February.
In the “cold holes” of the Jura and the Alpine valleys, the temperature in Samedan GR was minus 23.6 degrees and in La Brévine in the Neuchâtel Jura it was minus 21.3 degrees, as announced by the meteorological service MeteoNews on Twitter. In the lowlands and deep alpine valleys there were local temperatures as low as -10 degrees.
Meteoschweiz, the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, wrote on Twitter Sunday morning about the “calm before the storm,” because a strong foehn storm is expected over the course of Sunday and especially Monday night. In some Alpine regions, the meteorological service has therefore declared an alert level 4 out of 5, including in Glarus Süd, Erstfeld-Engelberg, Flüelen-Unterschächen, Werdenberg and Appenzell.
