THE NEXT ICE AGE - NOW!

Early snow records set to be broken in Austria
By Lisa Chapman
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12 Oct 09 - Austria’s provincial capitals are
expected to see their earliest snowfalls in history today as Arctic air sweeps the country.

Josef Haselhofer from Vienna’s Central Agency for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) said it would be the first snow cover in provincial capitals before 20 October in history and said Innsbruck, Salzburg and St. Pölten were likely to see snow.

He said as much as 30 to 40 centimetres of snow was likely down to 1,200 metres and snow could fall as low as 400 metres later this week, adding it had already begun to fall in Vorarlberg.

Car club ÖAMTC reported today that chains were mandatory for all vehicles on stretches of the Arlbergstraße (L197), Lechtalstraße (L198) and the Silvretta-Hochalpenstraße (L188) in Vorarlberg.

The record for early snow in provincial capitals was set in 2007, when snow remained on the ground in some of them from 20 to 24 October.

See entire article:
http://austriantimes.at/news/General_News/2009-10-12/17147/Early_snow_records_set_to_be_broken
Thanks to Steven Woodcock and Benjamin Napier for this link