Travel Not only in Belgium is the weather flipped, the Alps show a very different face. During the krokusweek -traditionally the most important holiday for the Belgians – it is in the Alps though. “The temperatures go down and in most places is a fresh layer of snow. The hats and scarves can best be wrapped up,” said Lander Van Tricht of NoodweerBenelux.

In January fell in the eastern Alps have much more precipitation than normal. This has ensured that there is currently in the mountains still more snow than average, despite the dry and mild weather of the past few weeks. In the western and south-western Alps is a different story. There went January, drier than normal and there was past few weeks also little precipitation. In these regions there is now less snow than normal.