weather conditions
The Alpine region is in the influence of a low pressure system over northern Italy, which will move across the eastern Alpine arc to the Czech Republic until Saturday. With a high-altitude current turning from northeast to northwest, persistently moist air will be brought to Switzerland until Saturday morning and accumulat on the northern slopes of the Alps. On Saturday afternoon, Switzerland will be locat between the recing low pressure system over the Czech Republic and another one over southern France. This will temporarily bring slightly less moist air to the northern side of the Alps. The southern side of the Alps will be weather-favor under the protection of the Alps.
Satellite image overlaid with hPa pressure surface
Satellite image overlaid with precipitation and geopotential on the 500 hPa pressure surface. (MeteoSwiss)
Rainy and cool Friday in German-speaking Switzerland
On the northern side of the Alps and in the Alps it remain overcast all day on Friday. In German-speaking Switzerland the weather was rainy in many places. With maximum temperatures of 10 to 15 degrees it was also quite cool north of the Alps for the end of May.
After the precipitation on Thursday afternoon was still partly thunderstorm-like and large amounts of precipitation accumulat in some places within a short period of time, the precipitation regime chang on italy mobile database Friday. Due to the influx of cooler air, the convective precipitation chang into widespread, stratiform precipitation. Most of the precipitation accumulat along the central and eastern northern slopes of the Alps due to congestion. Due to a countercurrent situation with westerly to northwesterly winds near the ground and initially easterly to northeasterly winds at altitude, it also rain persistently and in some cases heavily in the central and eastern midlands.
Between early Thursday morning and Friday morning, 30 to 60 mm of precipitation fell across the central and eastern northern slopes of the Alps and in parts of northern Graubünden. In the Schwyz Prealps, as much as 70 mm was measur locally. In the adjacent regions, the amounts were 20 to 40 mm.
The snow line gradually dropp on Friday
and reach around 1,600 meters on Friday morning. Due the happy company what aspects facilitate designing happiness in the organization? to the cooling of precipitation, the snow fell even deeper at times, particularly in the inner Alps.
Winter landscape in the Schanfigg on Friday afternoon america email at around 1800 meters.
Winter landscape in Schanfigg on Friday afternoon at around 1800 meters. (Roundshot Hochwang)
How much rain is still coming.