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MeteoSwiss, [a] officially the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, [b] is an office of the federal administration of Switzerland. It employs 290 people at locations in Zurich , Zurich Airport , Geneva , Locarno and Payerne .
It is caused by canalisation of the air-current along the northern edge of the Alps, during high-pressure conditions in northern or eastern Europe. Towards western Swiss Plateau, the Bise is pressed between the Jura mountains and Pre-Alps whereby it strengthens and mostly climaxes on the western shore of Lake Geneva. In summer, the Bise wind ...
Around 20 June, there was another weather situation with a low pressure area and a strong southerly flow, which brought moist air masses into the Alpine region. On Friday, 21 June 2024, a thunderstorm front brought persistent heavy rainfall in the Alpine region and also in the Jura Mountains and in areas near the border of neighboring countries ...
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Switzerland, [d] officially the Swiss Confederation, [e] is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. [f] [13] It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.
Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. [1] On Earth, most weather phenomena occur in the lowest layer of the planet's atmosphere, the troposphere, [2] [3] just below the stratosphere.
Meteoblue (stylized as meteoblue) is a meteorological service created at the University of Basel, Switzerland.In 2006, Meteoblue was then founded as a spin-off company in order to serve customers especially in the area of agriculture as well as solar and wind power.
In German-speaking Switzerland, Ticino is nicknamed Sonnenstube (sun porch), owing to the more than 2,300 sunshine hours the canton receives every year, compared to 1,700 for Zurich. [22] The canton can experience particularly heavy storms and rainfalls in summer. It is the region of Switzerland with the highest level of lightning discharge. [23]