X Post from Meteo Express, September 16.
More than a 1 meter or snow was been dumped on the Austian Alps on September 14, the first time snow has ever accumulated there in September, according to the Washington Post. In fact, snow in September in on the Alps’ peaks is not unprecedented, but the amount of snow accumulation is.
Discussing the impacts of the storm in Austria in more detail, Planet Ski writes:
More than a meter has fallen at altitude and still it snows. It is unprecedented for September.
Snow is falling to as low as 700m in Austria with as much as 2m expected to fall at altitude by the end of Monday.
Austrian storm warning centre UWZ says that in some areas, previous records for the entire month of September will be “surpassed in just a few days.”
Manuel Kelemen, a forecaster for Puls24 TV, said “what we’re experiencing is extraordinary, if not unprecedented”.
“Although occasional (mostly) high-altitude snowfalls are nothing unusual in September, this degree of storm is not something we have seen this early for many years and it will probably end up dumping record snowfalls (for the time of year) across some parts of Austria,” said Fraser Wilkin from weathertoski.co.uk.
Meteo Express (Weather Express in English) reports that the snow continued falling on September 15, leading to an accumulation of more than 2 meters by September 16.