20 Minuten. The weather website MeteoNews warns of a heatwave in Switzerland. After a more or less non-existent summer in Switzerland so far this year, temperatures have shot up. Many parts of the country are experiencing temperatures above 30 degrees today. MeteoNews has issued heatwave warnings for Switzerland’s central plateau, the Basel and Rhone regions, […]
Scientists explain Swiss heatwave
24 Heures. Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) have come up with a new explanation for the heatwave that has taken hold in Europe. Two forces appear to be at work. The first is a large body of hot or high pressure air in the troposphere, at 5,000 to 10,000 […]