The situation in Austria is worsening every hour, so message the website wetter.at. This weekend is in some places still two meters of fresh snow expected. In the Alps, is the highest avalanche risk. Yesterday was winter already recommended again as soon as possible to house to leave, or to wait until tomorrow. There are already quite the day, quite a lot of traffic jams on the roads. Tourists had their own cars, digging spades replaced ijsschrapers. Chaos reigns also on the airports of Innsbruck and Munich.

Snowfall in combination with the end of the christmas holiday in the morning early led to traffic jams in the winter. In Austria is it stuck on the A12 at Kufstein and in the south of Germany on the A8 to Munich and the Ring A99 in that city. In the rest of Southern Germany are especially files towards the east and south, such as on the A3 and A7 motorways, as a result of accidents caused by snowfall. the

According to VAB-spokeswoman Joni Junes must of the directors currently consider a half hour delay on the A10 between Villach and Salzburg, 50 minutes delay on the Fernpassroute in the direction of Füssen and a half hour delay on the A8 between Salzburg and the German Munich. The A21, the ring around Vienna, was closed in both directions. The emergency services are working at full strength.