Vienna in winter: less snow days than ever - the dramatic development!

Vienna in winter: less snow days than ever - the dramatic development!

Wien, Österreich - Vienna is getting greener! The once familiar winter landscape with a thick blanket of snow has increasingly given way to a less pleasant reality. According to a report by Today. At that time there were still around 50 snowy days a winter, today there are only 32. The reason? The global warming, which has increased the winter temperatures by around 2.25 degrees since the 1930s. In the lower layers, it is becoming more and more rain instead of snow, and when it snowes, the snow quickly melts back.

The forecasts for the future are particularly worrying, in which experts even expect that the number of snow days in Vienna could fall below ten per year. Geosphere Austria climateologist Alexander Orlik found that from 1931 to 1960 on average 47 days were measured with snow cover, while only 32 days were recorded in the period from 1991 to 2020. The latest data show an alarming reduction on both snowy days and on fresh snow, which fell 50 centimeters on unbelievers from 1991 to 2020, compared to 86 centimeters earlier.

Vienna and the snowless winter

The winter of 2019/20 is a low point with just a snowy day, which urges the nostalgic memories of snowy winter with up to 222 centimeters of fresh snow from the 1969/70 season. The development of the amount of snow and the days with a blanket of snow shows a clear tendency towards milder winters. It is all the more important to raise awareness of how significant the climate for the winter months in urban areas such as Vienna. These climatic changes are not just an expression of global patterns, they directly affect life in the city.