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PowderAlert 11 2018 /19 | The alarm before the drought

There will be another cold fresh snowfall before the northern hemisphere becomes rather bleak.

by Lars Oelmann 02/10/2019
Jonas Umbach
Schlick 2000
AS
Normally we are happy about every alarm, but here the future looks rather sad. Will winter soon end again after the great start? More on this in the medium term. And before that, there will be more snow in the north. Anyone who still wants to take a vacation should seriously think about it.

Alert areas and time period

From France to deep in the east. Ullr doesn't really have a defined core ready for us. The alert applies until Tuesday morning in the west and evening in the east.

Wind

Storm and gale. The whole thing starts at the moment (Sunday evening) with gale-force gusts in the pressure wave moving along the Alps. Then it's just gale force winds. This means that the chances of untracked powder are pretty slim at the top and it will also be dangerous due to the heavy loads

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Snowfall limit

Starts at 1000-1400m and quickly goes almost all the way down. So it's powdery except for the really annoying storm.

The amounts

From the west in France to the east there will be 30-50cm of snow, in the congested areas there may be up to 60cm. The chance of the upper end of the forecast is more likely in western Switzerland and in the east towards the Salzkammergut.

I don't expect 70cm.

Jonas Umbach
Schlick 2000
AS

Where should I go?

Tomorrow, Monday, into the trees. Tuesday, wait for the sun in Switzerland and then again in the trees in the far east, as the high will not arrive there until later.

Then another quick tour on Wednesday and then watch out for the warming. After that, it will be so warm that it will only stay good at the very top on the north side if it hasn't been completely destroyed by the wind there.

Mid-term

The oracle has the blues, because the general weather situation will probably be in a mess for at least two weeks. Warm and dry or at best less warm and dry are the likely developments. I hope I'm wrong. Unfortunately, thanks to climate change, that's not very likely. Let's hope for March.

Powder to the people!

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