A storm that delivered severe weather across Europe, including record September snow in Austria, broke temperature records in Switzerland, where heavy snow also fell.
Reporting on the event on X, Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology or MeteoSwiss wrote:
SwissInfo.ch reported that several low-maximum temperature records for this early in September were set. (See the screen capture from MeteoSwiss’s X account below)
“Since measurements began, the maximum values in the first half of September had never been so low locally, MeteoSwiss reported on X,” wrote SwissInfo.ch. “In Glarus, MeteoSwiss recorded a high of 7.8°C … [t]he previous record for the first half of September was a high of 8.5°C.
“MeteoSwiss also recorded the lowest maximum values ever measured in the first half of September in Meiringen and Interlaken in canton Bern, Altdorf in Uri, Engelberg in Obwalden, and on the Jungfraujoch,” Swiss Info.ch continued. “On the Jungfraujoch, for example, the maximum temperature was -11.8°C. According to MeteoSwiss, the previous record was around one degree warmer.”
Heavy snowfall from the storm closed mountain roads and passes throughout the Swiss Alps across multiple cantons.
The Pragel Pass between the cantons of Glarus and Schwyz was closed early on Saturday morning, according to the website of the Touring Club Switzerland (TCS),” said SwissInfo.ch. “The Klausen, Furka, Gotthard, Grimsel, Flüela, Susten, and Nufenen passes, which were already closed on Friday due to snowfall, remained closed.”