From Spring-like temperatures in parts of the country to avalanche warnings in other areas, wild, weird and inconsistent weather has been predicted for Switzerland this weekend.
With temperatures reaching tropical levels across Switzerland, officials in Zurich have set up a ‘heat telephone’ to advise residents on how to behave in ever-warmer temperatures.
After the hottest day of the year in Switzerland, violent thunderstorms have been predicted for Zurich and Aargau, while inclement weather is expected for much of the rest of the country.
The Swiss bureau of meteorology, MeteoSwiss, has issued a storm warning for Switzerland for Thursday. Activity is forecast to peak from noon until night.
Officials say that the worst is over in Switzerland after much of the country was ravaged by a storm which cancelled flights and trains as well as caused damage across the country.
A woman who drowned during a violent storm on Lake Geneva in Saturday was a friend of the Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia, Swedish media have reported.
Heavy rain, gale force winds, hail and lightening – Switzerland has experienced all these weather phenomena since Wednesday when a major storm front began moving across the country.
The amount of wood derived from trees uprooted by storm Eleanor in the first week of January is 1.3 million cubic metres, the Swiss federal environment office (BAFU) announced on Wednesday.
Clear-up operations are underway in Switzerland after storm Burglind swept across the country leaving a trail of destruction and causing damage estimated at tens of millions of francs.
A low-pressure front named Zubin swept across the northern half of Switzerland on Wednesday night bringing strong winds and leaving a trail of destruction.
Switzerland can expect clear skies and temperatures around the 30C mark in the coming days – a welcome break after a wild and woolly start to the summer.
Thirty nine people were injured, six of them seriously, when a marquee tent collapsed at the federal gymnastics festival in Biel in the canton of Bern on Thursday evening as a vicious storm swept through western and northwestern Switzerland.
