A spring-like February is no longer a sensation. It was very mild and mostly dry in 2021. A year later it was mild, sunny and stormy. And last year it was mild and had hardly any snow. History just repeats itself again. And yet something is different this year.
With currently up to seven degrees above the long-term average, this February will probably go down in the history books. The temperatures in the mountains are normal in April. Geosphere Austria recorded the warmest February to date (measurement data going back to 1851) in February 1998.
On the Feuerkogel, the deviation from the long-term average was 4.2 degrees. In February so far it was around 5.6 degrees too warm there. The last real ice day, i.e. a day on which the maximum value was below zero, was on January 20th. At that time the temperatures did not go above minus 5.5 degrees. On February 12th and 13th the highest value was again minus one degree, otherwise the temperatures always rose to plus – often even double digits. This year’s February record dates from last Friday: 12.3 degrees plus.
Eleven double-digit values
Even in Bad Ischl, Bad Goisern and Mondsee, where the temperatures are currently six degrees above the long-term average (it was three degrees in the record February 1998), there were double-digit plus temperatures on eleven days in February.
“Everything currently looks like a record February. Even if the deviation will still change, but probably only in the tenth range,” says Christian Ortner, meteorologist at Geosphere Austria. Because on Friday there will be a cold front in the Salzkammergut. The snowfall limit is likely to be around 700 meters; at higher altitudes from the Dachstein to the Großer Priel, up to 30 centimeters of fresh snow could accumulate if there is a lot of wind. It’s just not sustainable. “Although cooler air is coming to us, I don’t see any significant cold in any forecast model,” says Ortner. This means: It remains turbulent – and on some days it is clearly too mild.
Anyone who wishes for winter must pray for a north or northeast current. “We have been in westerly currents for weeks, and these are exactly the snow eaters,” says Ortner. At least above an altitude of 2000 meters it is still deep winter. Or a winter that is “quite okay,” as Ortner says.
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