Squalls expected

Drop in temperature: 10 degrees colder in a few hours

Vienna in spring

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Saturday morning: It's spring-like mild all over the country, and in Vienna, for example, it's lovely to stay outside without a jacket at up to 21 degrees. But if you're out and about all day, you should definitely bring something warmer to wear, because: It will cool down drastically in the coming hours. Temperatures will plummet by a whole ten degrees.

"Temperatures are currently going up and down, and a cold front will reach Austria during the course of the day, moving from Upper Austria to Burgenland," says Ubimet meteorologist Nikolas Zimmermann. Over the next few hours, gale-force winds will sweep across the country, bringing cold air with them: The result: "It will cool down by up to ten degrees in just a few hours," the weather expert told krone.at. In the evening hours, only nine degrees are expected in Vienna.

Snow won't last long
The snow line will also drop enormously, especially in the west of the country. It is expected to start at 600 meters. However, the fresh snow that winter sports enthusiasts are longing for will not survive the Easter vacations. It will be much warmer again from Tuesday.

According to Zimmermann, the Easter weekend itself will be "almost like early summer", at least in the east. Nothing should stand in the way of an outdoor Easter egg hunt.