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After the Christmas meeting, people went outside and saw trees flowers: warm and humid weather awakened nature, and the trees took it as the beginning of spring. Europe met Christmas stormy warm weather. Wednesday to Friday in many areas from 50 to 150 mm of precipitation fell. Highest intensity precipitation had in northern Italy. 53 days in Genoa recorded mm, Milan – 75 mm. For the most part it was rains. However in mountains, above 1000 meters, precipitation fell in the form of snow. IN in the Swiss Alps in two days, up to 2 meters of snow fell. According to Swiss Weather Services and Swiss Federal Institute studies of snow and avalanches in a number of areas updated historical snow depth records for this time. Intense snowfalls provoked an increase in avalanche hazard. In the base areas of heavy rains caused flooding. Last friday high pressure ridge stabilized the weather.
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