Europe’s Ski Resorts Face Avalanche Warnings With Temperatures Rising

Unseasonably warm temperatures and increased rainfall are raising avalanche alerts in the Alps and triggering landslide and flood warnings across Europe.

Heavy and persistent rainfall is causing flooding and landslides across parts of Switzerland, northern Italy and France, that are covered with fresh snow. That prompted the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology to raise the avalanche risk in the ski resort region of the southern mountains to the red “high danger” level for Tuesday.