Snowstorm Ignacio is bringing heavy snowfall: parts of continental Europe, Baltic region and Scandinavia under the snow

MK January 26, 2021 4 min read

Part of polar vortex above Europe is bringing lot of precipitation to many parts of continent. From Central Europe, Baltic region and Scandinavia is reported of expected mainly snowing, Balkan, France, the UK and Eastern Europe report mixed precipitation and in western and southern coast it is mostly rain.

Mainly in southern half of Germany, parts of Switzerland, Austria, eastern Slovakia, Carpathian Romania, eastern Poland, Baltic states, Scandinavia and western Ukraine and Belarus is ongoing regional (but not so much extreme) snow calamity.

In lower situated basins and lowlands in mentioned regions is regionally 15 – 30 cm of snow, rarely above 0,5 meters, in parts fo Scandinavia even 1 – 1,5 meters.

Many airports report problems, some busy highways are more dangerous, some mountain passages closed.

In last days, snowing surprised London or Paris. After shift of robust cyclonic system eastward, next coldwave will arrive, with possible temperatures up to -20/-25°C interval in basins and valleys in Central Europe around 1. Feburary 2021.

Information about third, possibly extremely storng attack of winter in the second February pentade, should be with relative high probability confirmed or denied already until the end of current week.

Infographics: meteologix.com, AccuWeather, Twitter

As #Ignacio continues to track to the north through the beginning of the week, rain and snow will spread across Ukraine and into Poland, Belarus, Lithuania and Latvia: https://t.co/RYCi09gQfv
— AccuWeather (@accuweather) January 26, 2021

Yesterday I went for a walk and took some pictures 📸#winter #Poland #snow #SnowDays #Podhale #ZIMA #zimajestnasza #Polska #exercise pic.twitter.com/KpeOfCXSN3
— Natalia Parzygnat (@NParzygnat) January 25, 2021

#PL #poland #percygermany #Polen #polska #Schnee #snow #Winter #malaupa #trutnov #trautenau pic.twitter.com/AMEwTCoWPk
— 𝔓𝕖𝕣𝕔𝕪𝔊𝕖𝕣𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕪 (@PercyGermany) January 25, 2021

A lot of snow in central Europe pic.twitter.com/kbvPhJnpPs
— soleo (@soleo_mh) January 26, 2021

My first winter in Europe was traumatic, first time i bought warm clothes, first i felt like my fingers and nose were about to fall off, first time i saw snow… i really hate it, the worst is when i need to use my car and i wake up to this pic.twitter.com/rmSyS3HZTs
— M RC 🇧🇷 (@Melaniiarc) January 26, 2021

Too bad
– we in the north are ignored as usual
– we obviously don’t belong to #Europe despite there has not been any more exit than the Brexit.
Getting a bit colder up here again.. but nothing strange despite the sudden snow bomb from above we just had. Windows blocked by snow. https://t.co/JMeI8gbrLL
— Sol Hog (@solhog) January 25, 2021

Heavy Snowfall… 🌨️❄️❄️
Night Time
Zurich Airport 12.01.2021
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Video on YOUTUBE
by crosswind
•#swissinternational #swiss #flyswiss #b777 #nightspotting #nighttime #snowflake #heavysnowfall #snowfall #snowAction #snowyairport #snowyplane #snow #winter #snowy #aviation #zrh pic.twitter.com/FZHBzFx3Zy
— crosswind (@BrunoLauper) January 26, 2021

Heavy snowfall in #Lithuania cut off power to about 18,000 households pic.twitter.com/aUUFin91jS
— BNS Lithuania (@BNSLithuania) January 26, 2021

Snow warning issued for Thursday into Friday for higher parts of the region.

Heavy and prolonged snowfall likely throughout Thursday.

Several cm's could fall to lower elevations.

Above 200m – some 15-30cm posdible.

Significant disruption possible.

Likely upgrade to amber ❄️ pic.twitter.com/qMArNgH0SP
— Northeast England Weather (@NorthEastWeathr) January 26, 2021

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