Ian Currie wrote in message ...

:With regards to Bjorn Sorheim's post re cold air moving south over Europe
it
:has been snowing in the area of Austria I monitor near Lunz where is a
:remarkable frost hollow it has been snowing most of the day at a height of
:1600 metres.

The daily report of the Free University of Berlin
http://www.met.fu-berlin.de/deutsch/...etterlage.html notes that snow
has fallen in central Germany above about 800 m. The Brocken in the Harz
mountains at 1142 m reported 4 cm snow this morning as did the Fichtelberg
in Saxony at 1214 m.

Colin Youngs
Brussels