Weather in Swiss Alps now

I’m here right now and there is absolutely no reason you should be cancelling your trip. This weekend in Mürren up in the mountains the high temp will be in the 50s. The high temps in Luzern for the next week are around 75. Gstaad high around 70 for the next week. The heat wave was in mid June to very early July.

https://meteonews.ch/en/News/N16650/Record-breaking-heat-in-the-first-half-of-July_-severe-drought

Here in western Switzerland we are still in a heatwave. Starting tomorrow things will cool down, but there is absolutely no way of knowing what August will bring.

Almost all of Switzerland has a severe drought warning (level 4) and a forest fire warning (Mürren is at level 3). There is an absolute fire ban in many parts of Switzerland.

I don’t think you need to cancel your trip, but it is definitely not ‘life as usual’ around here! Lots of forests look very dried out, fields in many areas are not lush and green. The grass around our apartment is completely brown and smaller shrubs are wilted and dead looking- something I have never experienced here before.

In the MeteoSwiss app you can see not just the temperature for various locations, but also the warnings I shared above. When there is a thunderstorm warning it will be displayed there as well.

For context regarding Mürren and other mountain villages, if there was a heatwave in the mountains we would really be in trouble! That doesn’t mean that they haven’t had record breaking temperatures though.

Here is a news article from July 13th

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/climate-adaptation/rising-temperatures-are-not-sparing-even-high-altitude-areas/91740039

In Murren we had rain all day yesterday and are set to have more rain over the next couple days, as well as the cooling down to the highs in the 50s.