An extensive low pressure system over southern Scandinavia has today brought a cold front to Switzerland. This will move further eastwards in the coming hours and leave Switzerland tomorrow morning. The showery precipitation began in the run-up to the front from the west, the snow line was initially at around 2100 metres and sank to around 1700 metres by Friday afternoon. By tomorrow morning the snow line will sink to around 1200 metres. Colder air will not only reach us in the layers close to the ground during the night into Saturday, a trough will also bring cold air at higher altitudes. This will lead to a destabilisation of the moist air mass, so that a few showers are still expect after the actual front tomorrow morning.
Impression from this morning from Escholzmatt
Impression from this morning from Escholzmatt. (Photo: Meteomeldung/APP)
snow warning level 2
A level 2 snow warning has therefore been issu for the saudi arabia phone number library northern slopes of the Alps; between 6 p.m. this evening and 12 noon tomorrow, 15 to 30 cm of fresh snow is expect above 1,600 meters.
The warning map with the snow warning for the event from this evening until tomorrow noon in yellow (level 2) as well as the warning outlook (orange strip) for a possible level 3 snow warning from Sunday evening to Monday evening (description follows below). Our warning regions are outlin in black.
The warning map with the snow warning for the event from this evening until tomorrow noon in yellow (level 2) as well as the warning outlook (orange strip) for a possible level 3 snow warning from Sunday evening to Monday evening (description follows below). Our warning regions are outlin in black. (Source: MeteoSwiss)
Short respite at the weekend
From Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning, the precipitation will calm solution make your cta specific concise down temporarily. On Sunday, an occluding front will reach us in the western flow during the day, bringing awb directory around 5 to 10 mm of precipitation. These amounts would correspond to a level 2 warning if the snow line was below 800 m. However, the snow line will be between around 1200 and 1500 meters, so the precipitation is not “warning-worthy”.