After parts of Austria received over 1 m of new snow over the weekend, this storm developed into a Reout d'est, which dropped 30 cm in the southwestern Italian Alps. A strong ridge in northern Europe will continue to push the storm track into eastern Europe. We'll have another storm dropping down from the north this weekend, but there's still some uncertainty regarding how significant the impacts will be. Later next week, the ridge will begin to move off to the east, hopefully allowing for more storms. 

There's not a whole lot to update you on today as we enter a bit of a dry stretch through Saturday. The next storm tracking just east of the Alps will graze Austria on Saturday. The upper-level low will become closed and cut off from the predominant flow, with several waves swinging counterclockwise around the center. One of these waves may produce some light to moderate snow next week, but overall, the models keep these storms far enough east for any significant accumulations. 

You can watch this play out in the GIF of the upper-level pattern below.

Later in the week, around the 12th, the ridge starts to break down and move southeast. This will open the storm door, but we don't know just yet if we'll get one to go through the door into western Europe.  This pattern may resemble the one we've seen often this Spring with an area of low pressure over southwestern Europe favoring the southern and southwestern Alps. That's quite a ways away, though, so let's keep an eye on it. 

My next post will be on Friday.

Thanks for reading the Europe Daily Snow!

Luke Stone
Forecaster, OpenSnow

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