Some scattered snow showers are possible in the eastern Austrian Alps on Monday as a storm system passes to the east, bot otherwise, dry and calm weather prevails across the region to start the week. As a strong ridge develops over Central Europe, this quiet pattern will continue, for at least the next 7 to 10 days.

We could see a very weak storm bring some snow showers to the Pyrenees this weekend, but impacts look minor at this time. Around the start of the following week, the ridge will start to break down. This should allow for some more active weather to move into central Europe. 

The models are now hinting at a pattern change around the middle of next week, which is a few day sooner than what was previously shown. The models generally agree that the ridge will break down and move to the south, initially sending storms to the north of the Alps and Pyrenees. We could see the first of a few storms moving in around Tuesday night, though some models hold off until Wednesday. A period of moderate to heavy snow is possible in the middle of next week, but this doesn't look like a major storm at this time. 

The models show additional storms, digging farther south, for the end of next week into the weekend. However, the ensembles also show other ridge developing over southern Europe early the following week. These possibilities are still more than ten days out though, so I wouldn't worry about it too much just yet. 

I don't have much else to share besides the upper-level pattern, which is shown below. You can see the storm to the east at the start of the GIF, followed by the ridge building in over central Europe in the middle, and then the possible return to stormy weather in the middle of next week. At the very end of the GIF you can see the ridge trying to build back into the region. 

My next post will be on Thursday.

Thanks for reading the Europe Daily Snow!

Luke Stone
Forecaster, OpenSnow

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