A low-pressure area over the North Atlantic has spread southward across Spain until Morocco. The Alpine region will persistently get at the front side of this low-pressure system in a significant southwesterly to southerly current. Very mild air masses from North Africa will head towards the Alps, Sahara dust may occasionally produce misty visibility conditions. At the same time, the mountains at the south side of the Alps and at the Alpine divide will be increasingly affected by barrier effects of more compact clouds. Consequently, weak to moderately heavy precipitation is expected time and time again in the areas of the Alpine divide until Thursday. Here, the sunny conditions will be rare, north thereof gaps in the cloud banks are occasionally expected over the mountains which make way for longer sunny spells especially on Thursday. A heavy to strong – on Tuesday even stormy – south foehn wind will blow which will produce further increasing temperatures. Friday will mark the end of the foehn wind, afterwards a colder westerly current will determine the weather.

Still foehny Still mild