Severe weather warnings for Orsières
Orsières (1937)
Severe weather warning level orange due to severe gale/storm
valid from: Sat Apr 27, 2024 05:00 am
valid to: Sun Apr 28, 2024 11:00 am
valid for: all elevations
valid to: Sun Apr 28, 2024 11:00 am
valid for: all elevations
For areas in the valleys: From Saturday morning considerable foehn gusts are expected in the valleys. Accordingly, wind gusts of 60 to 80 km/h are expected, locally even more. Winds blow from south to southeast. Sunday forenoon foehn gusts decrease.
This severe weather warning was last updated on Fri Apr 26, 2024 02:12 am.
Orsières has a minimum elevation of 784 m and a maximum elevation of 3236 m.
Time designations are given in local time, timezone: Europe/Zurich
Alert level details for Orsières
- level green (no warnings)
- level dark green (weather notice)
- level yellow (severe weather watch)
- Alert level Orange
- severe gale/storm: gusts of 75 to 100 km/h (elevations below 2000m)
- severe gale/storm: gusts of 100 to 120 km/h (elevations above 2000m)
- heavy rain: precipitation amount of 30 to 50 l/m² during 24 hours
- heavy rain: precipitation amount of 60 to 100 l/m² during 48 hours
- heavy snow: fresh snow of 10 to 15 cm during 12 hours (elevations below 1000m)
- heavy snow: fresh snow of 15 to 20 cm during 12 hours (elevations above 1000m)
- heavy snow: fresh snow of 15 to 20 cm during 24 hours (elevations below 1000m)
- heavy snow: fresh snow of 20 to 40 cm during 24 hours (elevations above 1000m)
- thunderstorm: hail diameter of 0.5 to 1 cm
- thunderstorm: precipitation amount of 10 to 20 l/m²
- thunderstorm: gusts of 75 to 100 km/h
- freezing rain: precipitation amount of 0.1 to 1 l/m²
- Alert level red
- Alert level violet