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Record rainfall and great warmth

The months of November and December brought record rainfall. On the northern ! side of the Alps. By mid-November, the amounts had already reach the monthly reference values ​​or exce them locally by twice. With 773 mm, the Säntis record the wettest month. Since the measurement series began in 1882. The Allgäu locations of Immenstadt-Reute and Balderschwang also broke their previous. Records with 393 mm and 555 mm respectively. In Austria, a new November record was set at at least 36 weather stations. with the focus being on Vorarlberg and North Tyrol. December and January. Were also widely too wet north of the main Alpine ridge.

In February and March the main precipitation area wa

 

s south of the main Alpine ridge.

This winter, the snow line was often above 1500 m due to the heat. Accordingly, el salvador mobile database the joy at the end of November and in the first days of December was short-liv, when it snow down to low altitudes. After a continuous decrease in the snow cover, the intense precipitation in the last third of February and in March l to a significant increase in snow in the high mountain regions. There was also snow again in April. At the end of the winter half-year, this temporarily l to above-average snow depths in locations at 1000 meters or higher.

Accumulat precipitation in the winter half-year 2

 

023/24 for a station in the Northern Alps (Reutte, AT) and a station in the Southern Alps (Locarno-Monti, CH) compar to the average of the reference period 1991-2020.
>Accumulat precipitation in the winter half-year 2023/24 for a station in the Northern Alps (Reutte, AT) and a station in the Southern Alps (Locarno-Monti, CH) compar to the average of the reference period 1991-2020. Precipitation totals on days that are below the reference period are shown in brown, higher precipitation amounts in blue. (DWD, GeoSphere Austria, MeteoSchweiz)
Warmest February since measurements began
With the exception of November at high altitudes, lws allows you to write and respond to your emails with ai all months of the winter semester 2023/24 were warmer than the reference period 1991-2020.

February 2024 stood out as the warmest month since agent email list records began. The average temperature in February in the Alpine region of the three countries was 5.1 °C above the long-term average from 1991 to 2020. At some stations, deviations of more than 6 °C were even record, e.g. in Oberstdorf (DE) with 6.5 °C. Only in the high mountains were the temperatures not quite as extreme, e.g. on the Sonnblick (AT, 3109 m above sea level) and on the Patscherkofel (AT, 2251 m above sea level) new February records were narrowly miss. The Jungfraujoch (CH, 3571 m above sea level) record +3.2 °C and 7th place for February.

 

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